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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urged on by the National Council of Churches, the center has been two years abuilding on 32,000 sq. ft. of land made available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
...cantilevered truss made up of tetrahedrons (four-sided pyramids) and octahedrons (eight-sided figures), which looks like something made by a giant playing with an Erector set. Made of lightweight aluminum tubes, the "octet" truss cantilevers outward 60 ft. from a single support, weighs only 3 lbs. per sq. ft. v. some 100 lbs. for a comparable structure in conventional steel beams...
...standards, Europe's supermarket boom is still in its infant stage. Most of the new self-service stores are not super-duper markets in the giant, U.S. sense, rarely have more than 3,000 sq. ft. of floor space (v. 10,000 for the average U.S. super), stock only an average of 1,000 to 2,000 items (v. 5,600 in U.S. markets). Some stores still do not sell frozen foods, leave the meat to the outside butcher; only a few are big enough to produce their own brands of canned goods. But they all have one thing...
...half of its 96 stores into self-service markets, plans to convert all its stores to self-service by 1961, reports that sales automatically double when customers realize that they can shop faster, more easily and more cheaply at self-service. Two years ago, Paris' big (14,000 sq. ft.) Ternes-Alimentation grocery store decided to try out the "American discovery" by spending $240,000 on a self-service system for their customers. It will be rewarded this year with estimated sales of $1,600,000, compared with a pre-modernization gross...
...busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From keel to launching, Willy...