Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends of the sculptor and sponsors who have located the original small-scale model plan to get the City of Chicago and private contributors to put up some $5,000,000 for the reconstruction. Law forbids them to erect it on the grounds of the Capitol or the Library of Congress, and, thanks to an amendment by Congressman John Costello of Hollywood, they will not be able to set it down in the Tidal Basin, or in the reflecting pool before Lincoln's austere memorial. But there are lots of other conspicuous places in Washington...
...undertakers (who prefer to be called "morticians," call their places of business funeral "parlors" or "homes") have long offered complete funerals for a flat fee. Last week in San Francisco, one Patricia Morgan, onetime Manhattan model and proprietor of a "charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding Home" was aimed at business girls who, without church or family background, "have the same yearning as society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes...
Last week, Partners Goldenberg and Bibichkow made an announcement: for the 1940 model year (which begins next month) Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co., Inc. will double its 1939 output, will bundle up 10,000,000 model sets to be put together and flown by youngsters and hobby-minded oldsters. In 1938, business was good, Comet grossed "closer to $1,000,000 than $500,000," expects to pass the $1,000,000 mark...
Today Sam and Bill and Louis Kapp, a young laundry worker who was their first salesman, have 225 employes, by next month's end will have 300 working three shifts. Over the boards, six draftsmen and eight designers wield pen and T square turning out drawings for scale models of most U.S. military and commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper...
Louis Kapp is president, looks after the sales of Comets, edits the Comet catalogue (5?), is proud of Comet's line which, besides modern tricycle landing gears, includes accessories, model engines ($9.95 to $21.50), propellers (Comet produces 90% of the props used by the U.S. model business). Sam Goldenberg is vice president, directs the factory. Bill Bibichkow is treasurer and directs model design. He is proudest of Comet's crack designer, 26-year-old Carl Goldberg, who won five of the six first places in the National Aeronautic Association model contest at Detroit last month, brought three cases...