Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which hundreds of motor manufacturers were killed off. A $50,000-a-year Fordman in 1921, he next year entered General Motors as adviser to a vice president. Three years after he was president of Chevrolet. There his production genius is credited with forcing Ford to give up Model T for Model A. When a new job was created for him in 1933, as executive vice president in charge of all G. M. operations, William S. Knudsen had unquestionably made his the biggest automobile operations job in the world. He remained as friendly and democratic as he had been when...
Artist Utrillo, born 53 years ago, is the illegitimate son of a onetime circus acrobat, Marie Suzanne Valadon, who at the age of 15 became a favorite nude model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, later became a painter herself and is alive today, still painting, with a reputation nearly as great as that of her son. The father was an alcoholic, ill-tempered, untalented painter named Boissy. In 1888, when little Maurice was five, pretty Suzanne Valadon married a Paris importer named Paul Mousis, but M. Mousis refused to legitimize Maurice Valadon Boissy or give...
Europe was having its troubles, but Catherine let Europe take care of itself. As a model wife and mother, she had her hands full at home. Henri had never made any secret of his infatuation for Diane de Poitiers, who was old enough to be his nurse, and Catherine even had to share her children with her rival. Only very occasionally did Catherine let her feelings come to the surface. Once Diane found her reading, asked what the book was. Said Catherine: "I am reading the chronicles of France, and I find that from time to time, at every period...
...first temporary exhibition, the Hochschild gallery showed a full size cement model of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge...
...Cierva resolved to remove these flaws, began toying with helicopters (planes with the propeller faced vertically). He got the idea of disconnecting the helicopter propeller from the engine, enlarging it. Result in 1920 was the first autogiro, which did not fly. Neither did the second or third model. Then, according to legend, Music Lover de la Cierva and his wife were at an operatic version of Don Quixote when he noticed that the flexible blades of the stage windmill flapped slightly as they turned. He made the rotor blades of his next giro flexible. In January 1923, it flew...