Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year Munoz Marin is challenged by a man renowned enough to cut down the 65% majority Munoz Marin earned in 1952. Luis Ferre, 51, is a member of Puerto Rico's most important and progressive industrialist family. Master of a fortune earned in cement, glass, shipping, tile-making and trucking, he believes that "industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it." Ferre industries were famed for paying a $1-an-hour minimum wage long before...
...roof 20 ft. to create a portico supported by narrow, gilded-aluminum columns that run around the whole perimeter. From the Taj Mahal he borrowed the idea of marble and ala baster grilles to cut down glare, but to keep the execution modern. Stone designed a screen of pierced tile that will drop from roof to floor, giving the two-story building an expansive one-story appearance. A double roof with air conditioning will do the job lyth century Indian builders solved with the Taj Mahal's soaring white domes...
...Clay pipe and tile: 15,032,600 linear ft. v, 8,100,000 linear...
Custom-Made Trees. The industry's brightest hope for the future, as one lumberman said recently, is in "man's resourcefulness grafted on nature's resources." Sawdust and shavings today are swept thriftily into plastics, glues and hardboards. From the bark come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from...
Included in the plans for restoration are a new railing, with a weather vane at each corner, around the now barren top of the building; dormers over the clocks; various pinnacles down the side of the building; and copper sheathing for those portions which are covered by asphalt tile at the present time...