Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About four miles from Spring Green, Wis., the hills splay into two soft ranges to let a fast stream flow toward the Wisconsin River. Facing southwest over this valley a big, long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone that crops out in ledges along the stream. Under snow the house melts easily into the landscape. Its name is Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning...
...eaves. "Taking a human being for my 'scale,' " Wright has said, "I brought the whole house down in height to fit a normal one-ergo, 5' 8" tall, say. ... I broadened the mass out all I possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen, as a means of opening up space. . . . The planes of the building parallel to the ground were all stressed-to grip the whole to Earth...
...monoplanes whose 225 m. p. h. cruising speed makes them the fastest commercial planes in the world. Weather was not too good and shortly after noon Pilot Mamer dropped down at Butte, Mont, for a scheduled landing, lingered until the skies cleared. Then he drummed away over the mountains toward Billings, Mont. His last report: "Cruising at 9,000 ft. with everything okay...
...sheriff's posse set out from Bozeman on skis to bring in the bodies and as investigators from Northwest Air's headquarters and from Washington hustled unhappily toward the wreck, no one had any idea what could have caused it. The weather on the spot was blowy but no tempest. The plane had the best of equipment, even a unique loop antenna made static-proof by enclosure in the ship's transparent plexiglass nose. Lockheed 143's can maintain their height on one engine and it seemed incredible that both could have cut out simultaneously. Said...
Authorities expressed the opinion that this meeting was a preliminary step toward some now cooperative venture, such as the NRA, between government and industry...