Word: urbans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that he had discovered a death ray capable of killing a million...
...Fogg Museum laboratories the future camouflagers actually hide the military emplacements on realistic battlefields, and the vital industrial plants on miniature cities. The models, some of which are copied from real urban and rural communities, are illuminated by special lights to simulate the different times of day and reveal accurately the shadows cast by the sun's rays...
Says Planner Sert: "In its academic and traditional sense, city planning has become obsolete. In its place must be substituted urban biology...
...back-to-the-land antique addict and his strictly modern-convenience wife, who bought a decrepit house in which George Washington was said to have slept. But the leading roles have been switched. In the film Ann Sheridan is a Duncan Phyfey wifey. Jack Benny is her harassed, urban-minded husband...
...North also sees a great market for his milk at home if urban consumers can learn to accept reconstituted milk as the real thing and not ersatz. Savings in transportation and refrigeration costs, a flattening of the seasonal production curve could substantially reduce city milk prices...