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Most common parental excuse for hooky-playing was the need to secure shelter space. By 9 every morning swarms of ferret-eyed, wax-skinned youngsters lined up with piles of bedding outside the tube shelters, waiting to go underground to hold the family "pitch" till nightfall. Inside they played on the long platforms of the subway stations, kept an eye open for the chance to steal a better sleeping space. Said one experienced moppet: "School? I got to get the seats ain't I? ... Ma goes home to do her work and sends me back to keep her place...
...steel-&-gunite walls. Such walls have never before been built-they are made of steel props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning...
Much of Architect Wright's early work looked familiar to last week's visitors, because nearly every apartment-house designer today uses ideas that Wright thought up more than a generation ago. More startling were designs of buildings erected in the past ten years like the Johnson Wax factory at Racine, Wis., whose flimsy-looking mushroom pillars (broad at the top and narrow at the base) involved a brand-new contribution to engineering...
Although most members of the class of '44 will never have to sell floor wax or washing machines, chances are that every single one of them will have to sell himself some time. Winning friends and influencing people may be passe, but it is still important to know how to get someone to do something you want...
...They took us to quite an extensive valley where 100,000 Armenians were killed before us. Seeing that immediate death awaited me, I took the blade of a pen knife which I had stuck to my hair with wax, and cut the rope which tied me to the other nine...