Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect tension balance, and it has withstood the storms for over half...
Lucky Break. Bridgehampton (pop. 1,499) was chiefly worried about danger to spectators. Road racing had got a black eye when a youngster watching from the sidewalk was killed at the Watkins Glen race last fall (Lloyd's of London jacked up the insurance rates for road-race organizers after that one). Moreover, earlier last week, road racing had taken another blow when New York's Governor Tom Dewey banned road racing from all state highways. Bridgehampton's town board decided to double the number of special policemen (increasing them to 240), let the races...
...Lloyd Jordan led a combined B.U. Harvard team to a stirring victory over a Northeastern-B.C. due in a golf match Saturday, but the varsity football coach cagily refused to tell his score...
...think it's filthy," declared famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright,* 83, in the big city for a brief inspection tour. "It's 3 greatly overgrown village. It has phases unworthy of a great city-trucks mixed with taxicabs and private conveyances, the whole thing a melee, and then the garbage set out on the streets. Very village-like." Wright added that Alexander Weollcott had once defined New Yorkers as "Midwesterners with ulcers...
...themselves into an unhappy readiness to fight, while all the time hoping a fight might be avoided. To avoid inflaming the public, both nations, by unspoken agreement, had clamped a firm censorship on the almost daily clashes in the zone. Last week Britain's Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd broke the silence, reporting to the House of Commons that since April 1, Egyptians had on 30 occasions attacked British servicemen and installations. Egypt told foreign reporters that the British had killed eight Egyptians and wounded 17 others in the same period, but the volatile Cairo public was told...