Word: welted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neue Zeitung, the U.S. Military Government's prize package, is the New York Times of Germany. No paper has greater influence; only Die Welt (circ. 900,000), sponsored by the British military government, is bigger. The Zeitung subscribes to A.P., U.P., I. N.S. and Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation (at 6? a copy...
...ARTICLE "WALT & WELT" [TIME, MARCH I] BE A LESSON TO THE BUILDING INDUSTRY TO CUT THE WORD "GRAPH" FROM THEIR DICTIONARIES. AMAZING HOW SUCH AN INNOCUOUS LITTLE WORD GOING INTO THE EAR OF A TIME CORRESPONDENT CAN COME OUT in THE HORRIBLE FORM OF "GRAFT." JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT IS OUR BUSINESS GRAPH LINE WHICH HAS BEEN RISING NOT OUR GRAFT...
...prizes: supervising the $31,000,000 building program for the University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been winning it for years, by smooth salesmanship, a rising reputation for deftly mixing traditional and unorthodox designs...
...Walt & Welt's home designing on a mass production basis. They put up housing for 50,000 workers in California's mushrooming war industries, and soon they had 83 assistants working for them. "It was spit and matchstick stuff," Wurdeman says, "but it made us build a big organization and got us so we weren't appalled at big jobs...
...autos, they built a country-club-like store that started a new trend in stores. Expected to gross $7,500,000 a year, the store, which opened last fall, is now operating at an annual rate of $16 million. Bullock's was so pleased that it hired Walt & Welt to design two more branches at Palm Springs and Westwood...