Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cliff at a procession of winged horses and muscular nudes swooping up into the sky. This picture is called "The Fountain of Youth." Workmen have also just set up, in the ladies' room of Rockefeller Center's 3,500-seat cinema theatre, an illuminated colored glass panel 18 ft. long of "Amelia Earhart Crossing the Atlantic," and in the main lounge another 18-ft. panel entitled "Sports," by Arthur Crisp...
...procedure: at Newark Airport small Pilot "Bill" Lester of American Airways, who is 26 years old but looks 18, takes off in a Fairchild. Hidden in the blackened cockpit behind is old-timer Dean Smith, who flew for Byrd in the Antarctic. Pilot Lester disconnects the radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take me to Newark...
...drive is centred this week. In the lowest price bracket the Terraplane boasts unusually high power to weight ratio. To Arthur Kudner of Erwin, Wasey Advertising Agency goes credit for the car's name. It has six cylinders, body & chassis as one structural unit, rubber engine-mounting, instrument panel directly in front of the driver. Reported price...
...trustees were a little uncertain. They had heard that these Mexicans were very extreme, but they gave him a panel, 7 ft. by 8 ft. at the end of a corridor leading to Carpenter Hall, to put up a sample. Muralist Orozco summoned his assistant, Master Plasterer Juan Jorge Crespo, and went to work. They produced a fresco in vibrant Mexican color entitled "Man Released from the Mechanistic." It showed a mass of broken machinery-cannon, gears, buzzsaws, bayonets and distilling worms-out of which is arising a naked youth with a cauliflower ear and a bright shoe-button...
Meantime, one member of the jury was appointed to the new Honolulu police commission. The commission, not he, felt his resignation from the panel was necessary...