Word: pantographs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their riches would doubtless multiply. But the Brothers Cowles began to have other ideas three years ago when they decided to expand. Sharing their plans was Brother John's good Harvard friend Davis Merwin, who in Bloomington, Ill. was running his family's 99-year-old Pantograph, and running it well enough to make it top-flight among small-town papers. For their first step, Messrs. Cowles & Merwin sought a community with a high rating of literacy and education, a high percentage of native-born U. S. citizens, preferably of northern European stock, an even distribution of purchasing...
...lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full 35 ft. by 42. He sent this model to Brussels in 1931 to be cast into bronze. It is still in Brussels. But in his big white Manhattan studio, as clean as a hospital operating room, Manship...