Word: ups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Terror and chaos were worst in the far southern city of Canton. Originally this was the bailiwick of President Chiang Kai-Shek, and from it he sallied, three years ago, at the head of the Nationalist Army which proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last...
Gas went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts...
The man in the street watches a 72-story building go up and queries: What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future...
Le Corbusier's hypothesis is that man, a reasonable being who pursues his way with a purpose, will build his city on the principles of geometry -"the means created by ourselves whereby we perceive the external world and express the world within us." The Corbusier battle cry is Order...
¶When the fox goes to ground, "do not ride up to the earth and try to look into it. There is nothing to see, only a hole. If you insist on making yourself useful, ask the huntsman if you may hold his horse for him."