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...bare Nebraska prairie near North Platte. First came Pony Express riders, followed by oxcarts, stage coaches, high-wheeled bicycles, "horseless carriages," and finally streamlined automobiles. Filing proudly past, they marked the climax of a ceremony which drew notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from one end of its 460-mi. length to the other. Most significant: The last link in the Lincoln Highway had been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced...
...stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials in building. But it remained for Le Corbusier to supply the crackling phrases which often did more to promote and popularize modern architecture than any number of houses in that style designed by less articulate fellow-workmen. Architect Le Corbusier's view of his own profession: "There is one profession and only one, architecture, in which progress is not considered necessary, where laziness is enthroned, and in which the reference is always to yesterday...
...famed actors who introduce their specialties as bit parts-George Arliss as the British Prime Minister and Walter Huston as the U. S. President, circa 1985 A.D. The film is an exciting if misleading cinematic horoscope to which futuristic fashion notes were contributed by Schiaparelli. Good shot: gas-masked workmen chatting via television telephones...
BROWNS original University Hall still stands, only very slightly altered. John Brown, pioneer overseas shipping magnate, himself laid its corner stone in 1770 and gave liquid encouragement to the workmen when each floor and the root was finished...
...unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes...