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Housewives will like the kitchen, a rectangular room free of sharp projections, handles, gadgets. Down one side runs a Monel-Metal topped counter in which is set the stove (gas or electric), the refrigerator, the sink. Above the counter are enameled metal cabinets stored with canned and packaged goods which come with the house. "We want you to have two days' food when you move in." says the company. Next to the kitchen, neatly embedded in a thick column, are the furnace (coal, gas, oil or electric), the plumbing inlets and outlets, the air-conditioner...
Smack in the middle of the slum-mulligan of Manhattan's lower East Side two barefaced, rectangular apartments rear their bricks twelve stories into the air. Jointly christened Knickerbocker Village, they cover four whole city blocks. Between the two units is a concrete playground, and within each will be a garden. Each of the 1,593 apartments has wooden parquet floors, electric refrigeration, tiled bathrooms, outside windows. The elevators are self-operating. Rentals range from $22.50 for 2½ rooms on the ground floor to $87.50 for a 5½-room penthouse. Average is $12.50 a room. Knickerbocker Village will cost about...
...rectangular envelope weighing over two pounds plunked down upon the desks of 10,000 news and admen throughout the land last week. Out of it came the current issue of Editor & Publisher. It was no 50-page regular weekly issue of the Press's No. 1 tradepaper but a glittering, gilt-coated volume of 320 pages. The legend on the cover told the story: GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER-1884-1934. Backward through a series of competitors which it had absorbed during half a century, Editor & Publisher traced its origin to a 12-page sheetlet called The Journalist...
...signaled his orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped...
...long rectangular square in Naples, a crowd which fills the place solidly from wall to wall has been waiting for hours. In spite of the burning sun, the enthusiasm has never abated, and the low hum of the densely packed mob is steadily increasing in volume. There is a stir on the small balcony of the building at the extreme end of the plaza, a short, black-shirted, uniformed figure steps briskly to the balustrade, and the low hum swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little...