Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clay-tile Tycoon Walter S. Dickey, who bought the Journal in 1921, bashed in his fortune trying to buck the Star. Utility-man Henry L. Doherty, who bought 50% control in 1931, sank about $300,000 a year in the Journal (plus $250,000 a year in utility advertising). His only profit: whatever satisfaction came from his hysterical series of libel and conspiracy suits totaling $54,000,000 against the Star for its hard-hitting campaign for lower gas rates (they were thrown...
...help of every Harvard gentleman and his bathtub. These are times that try women's souls; now is the time for all good men to come to their aid with a party--a water party. From the sixty-year-old wooden bathrooms of Weld and Thayer to the shining tile lavatories of the House we must rally to the defense of fair, sweet, pure smelling womanhood...
Last week's exhibition attempted to show in a model nutshell that TVA's designers had coordinated its myriad parts into a unified symphony of structure. The severe functionalism of its big dams and powerhouses was echoed in the simple, modern design of its glass and tile lavatories, smooth-surfaced drinking fountains, control rooms, bridges, highways, dormitories, parks, recreation areas. The steely, mechanical beauty of smooth, insectile cranes, the generator rooms (see cut), expressed TVA's designers' aim: "to make TVA look as efficient...
...fired for writing a sassy letter to his boss; unabashed, he proceeded to use the boss's name as reference in seeking other jobs. He has been mad at RFC since 1938, when he applied for a $60,000 loan to reopen his Hickory Clay Products Co. (tile) at Mineral City, Ohio. The plant had been shut down most of the time since 1929, had lost money steadily. When he asked RFC to finance improvements and provide new working capital, RFC looked at the company's record and flatly refused...
...permanent airdrome, one British mechanized patrol counted the charred fuselages of 40 planes, burned and twisted by R. A. F. bombs. The runways were pitted with a lacework of craters. The hangars and machine shops were battered to rubble. The plush officers' quarters, completed down to tile bathrooms, were sagging ruins. At El Gubbi the story was the same. At El Gazála they found 35 more wrecked planes. The Italians had abandoned their air bases as far west as Dérna, acknowledging British dominance in the air over the immediate battle front...