Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spending money freely in experimentation, with returns only in the future. It is because they believe that aircraft will revolutionize transportation, and because they want Detroit to be the center of manufacture for the equipment of the air. They have recently donated an airport to the City-a model of its kind. When Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ZR3 in its trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit. "We'd have no place to tie up. We'd have to have a tower of some kind...
...that firm expired about that time. Under their regime, the Cathedral was to be French Romanesque outside and Byzantine inside. "Ralph Adams Cram took over the work in June, 1911. The trustees ordered him not to go on with the old plan. He is the architect of the present model which is pure Gothic...
Born. To James Montgomery Flagg, 48, artist, and Mrs. Flagg (Dorothy Wadman, 26, model for many of his magazine covers), a daughter, Faith; in Manhattan...
...last week the 38th annual exhibition of the Chicago Architectural Exhibition League. Many famed architects displayed designs: James Gamble Rogers, builder of the Harkness Memorial at Yale, showed a group for the AEtna Life Insurance Co., Hartford-an interesting study in late colonial. Architects Holabird and Roche exhibited their model for a stadium at Grant Park, Chicago, the Propylseum of Athens transplanted, magnified. Yet, for all the presence of these able builders, the exhibition seemed to be a memorial to one now dead, one who was perhaps the greatest of U. S. architects -Bertram G. Goodhue. He was represented...
...mine belongs to the Stinnes group and was held to be one of the world's model mines. It has not had an accident since...