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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Houses. In Hazleton, Pa. on the outskirts of the anthracite region, stands a neat rectangular little dwelling painted sky green and as simple as a candy box. Under its flat roof of rolled steel-&-aluminum are a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. The cellarless foundation is aero-cement; the frame, steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing...
Michael Arlen, who was not born yesterday, is sensitive to the shifts and veerings of popular sentiment. With the barometer dropping and economic-colored clouds massing in the sky, he needs no plebiscite to tell him that ladies in green hats had better come in out of the rain. In Man's Mortality there is not one perfumed whiff of Mayfair or Park Avenue; like a young H. G. Wells and without a backward glance Author Arlen has soared into the world of the future...
...Widener. And what a bad time to study it is. Berkeley appears even more esoteric and fanciful than in January. Surely it must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral triangle can seem like in March...
While Chicagoans droned in bed before dawn one morning last week, it was morning 18,000 ft. up in the cold, paling sky where Pilot Roy Colton, 27, circled in an open cockpit biplane. In line of duty he was taking notes on the height and thickness of cloud layers, ice forming conditions, the direction and violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking...
...fuselage tail, with control surfaces, is hooked onto the coupe's bustle-like stern (see cut). The driver (now a pilot) steps on the same gas throttle as before, steers with the same steering wheel, prods the same foot-brake, kites down the runway, climbs to the sky...