Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great packager" who tricks up boxes and labels, Designer Loewy lures U.S. consumers into buying more soap, lard, perfume and hair oils. If he did nothing more than such trivial things, consumers might well wonder what benefit, if any, they get from his work. But he also works just as hard making all manner of things better and more usable. His new vacuum cleaner (Singer) is the first which is designed to be hung up flat against a closet wall. Foley Bros, department store, in Houston, was the first department store designed so that a shopper could walk through...
Loewy's first job for the Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited...
...publisher, in turn, was also impressed by the Parisian suavity and horizon-blue uniform of the dapper young officer. He put him to work on fashion illustrations for Vogue, and Loewy swiftly demonstrated his unmatched ability to impress all the right people...
...Frontiers. For all the work that had been done, there still remained vast, unexplored regions of ugliness and inefficiency for the U.S. industrial designer to tackle. Designer Loewy last week summed up a few of the challenges...
...ever a general had his work cut out him, it was George Churchill Kenney he reported for duty to Douglas MacArthur in Australia. The Allied Air he was to command in the South Pacific seemed hopelessly outnum by the Japanese. MacArthur told flatly that his new command was in combat and that he had no for its top officers. It looked as if MacArthur was right. The next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting...