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...Texas at 100 miles an hour . . . the tail fin to line her up at this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates air conditioning and heating." But dream-car talk usually starts production-minded auto men to shattering their glass-topped desks. They have patiently explained that the first postwar cars will be 1942 models, that...
Beebe reports a menu, prepared for Cognac King Walter Dupuys: The hors d'oeuvres alone took up a half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets...
...Venetian Blinds. Dr. Garfield had worked out his group medicine formula through medical care plans at the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Parker Dam and Imperial Dam projects before Kaiser hired him at Grand Coulee. He had found that complete medical care for workmen in their own hospitals could be financed by a 5?-a-day payroll tax plus a percentage of the industrial insurance premiums. The insurance companies were glad to chip in, as the good medical care cut compensation payments...
...rate of $50,000 a month-the Garfield plan was raking in 7? a day from 60,000 workers, plus a percentage from the insurance companies. Later Garfield built other hospitals, many first-aid stations in Kaiser shipyards and plants. The hospitals have air conditioning, attractive paint jobs and Venetian blinds. The most unusual feature: rooms are private or semiprivate, because Garfield believes pleasant surroundings help recovery; and "Henry Kaiser-fanatical believer in a medical golden rule-maintained that if he himself should have a private room, then so should every worker...
...large body of guests was divided into three smaller groups with a guide for each. The tour began in the Venetian Court Yard, which is particularly spectacular at this season with a brilliant assortment of flowers, and was followed by a musical in the Tapestry rooms, with Miss Virginia Raymond, contralto, and Reginald Boardman, pianist, in joint concert...