Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve years ago Hood was a clientless architect in Manhattan, married and $10,000 in debt. News came that a design he had drawn for the $7,000,000 Chicago Tribune Tower had won its $50,000 competition prize. He had to borrow to buy an overcoat to travel to Chicago and collect his money. Because he had submitted his design from the office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter...
...staff the flag of Northern Ireland for Germany's late, great President von Hindenburg. As he fiddled with the ropes Sergeant Irvine smelt smoke. It curled in tiny wisps from the apartments of the private secretary. As he raised the alarm crackling flames burst through. Before fire engines could travel the twelve miles from Belfast, Hillsborough Castle was leaping skyward in a vast, black swirl...
...next September with resources of less than $1,050 for the nine months following will soon find himself a victim of acute financial anxiety. He will need that sum to pay his tuition, his room & board and incidentals and there will not be a cent left for clothing, travel or amusement. If he plans to join a fraternity he will have to scrape up an additional $100 or $150. And if he is going to live like his other classmates at Dartmouth, he will find by next June that his outlay has been in the neighborhood of $1,700-highest...
Next fortnight she is scheduled to fly to Rio de Janeiro to be christened Brazilian Clipper by the wife of Brazil's President Vargas. Thereafter in Pan American's Miami-Rio-Buenos Aires service she will cut air travel time from seven days to five...
...have six big fast new freighters plying between Manhattan arid the Orient. At Havre, the French Line is busy prettifying the launched Normandie for her queenship of the seas next summer. But far the busiest shipyards in the world are the British. Next month Her Majesty Queen Mary will travel north to the Clyde there to launch a 73,000-ton monster which in 1936 will take away the Normandie's crown of size. And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia, but Victoria...