Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson & Son (see cut) which is unlike any other in the world. A few miles from Racine, President Herbert Johnson has let Wright build him a house which lies along the prairie in four slim wings. A huge chimney with fireplaces on four sides is in the focal living room. At Bear Run, Pa., Wright has just finished his most beautiful job, "Fallingwater," a house cantilevered over a waterfall for Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...
These "dendriform" columns, growing from the floor and increasing the spaciousness of the floor level, were made possible by a distribution of stresses through concrete reinforced by welded steel mesh. The huge main room is lit not by windows but by a wide horizontal rift of glass tubing at the angle of walls and ceiling and by skylights. It is ventilated through two circular ducts or "nostrils" rising through the building. Radiators have been eliminated by a heating system under the floor slabs. Clients. The history of the Johnson Building illustrates perfectly one of the traits in Frank Lloyd Wright...
...general attracted clients who had enough money to be adventurous but not enough to be stuffy. His personal improvidence is legendary. But the best piece of evidence that Wright will, when really necessary, pay careful heed to the means of his client is the one-story, six-room, $5,500 house which he finished last month for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaperman in Madison...
Though there thus was no chance of vituperative cross-questioning, the unemployment investigation promised to remain on the front page. For Jimmy Byrnes & Co. last week sat back under the cut-glass chandeliers of the Senate caucus room to listen not to fusty professors or census takers but to the opinions of some of the biggest shots in U. S. industry on a subject which every small businessman loves to discuss...
After parading the ten competitors through the ball room, the Big Four concluded that Simmons possessed a perfectly proportioned face. Their decision was based on the results of tape measures, but their standards were not revealed...