Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MODERNISMUS "MODERN" originates in Germany ("[Frank Lloyd] Wright in goose step") and creates a house that is "essentially a flat-roofed, glazed box . . . on low stilts." Its steel-and-wire inside "is as far from gemiitlich as a deep freeze...
...Paleolithic man. 61. Almost 50 years to the day after the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, Major Charles E. Yeager flew faster than any previous pilot or plane. His speed: 1. 600 miles per hour...
Harfield; a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School, discussed the work of "The International Lawyer." A member of the firm of Sherman, Sterling, and Wright in New York City, Harfield warned prospective lawyers against believing that they could become international lawyers "over night." He said it is a very difficult field to master...
...strike vote proposal reflects the belief that workers would often vote against their union leaders if they had the chance. But while such a regulation was in effect for essential industries during the war. the Government conducted 2,285 strike polls in such companies as Goodyear, General Motors and Wright Aeronautical, found that in most (85%) employees voted to strike. Instead of making for quicker settlement, the polls served (in workers' eyes) as a sort of Government approval, tended to solidify the opposing battle lines...
Died. Joseph Wright Powell, 76, naval architect and shipbuilder; in Thomasville, Ga. During the Spanish-American War, Annapolisman Powell commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet...