Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the final model was chosen and mocked up full-size, Loewy called in Studebaker officials and dramatically whisked the coverings off the model. Loewy feels that "it is the first impression that counts; either it clicks or it doesn...
...thin top of the atmosphere at this speed. He decided that if the particle were small enough, about 4 microns (.000156 in.) in diameter, the heat generated by its friction with the air would be carried away (by radiation and other effects) without heating the particle. The "critical size" that he calculated theoretically was close to the actual size of Landsberg's particles. This is strong evidence, said Whipple, that Landsberg's particles really came from space and passed through the atmosphere unscathed...
...Studebaker plant from 28 to 39, talked each design over with engineers to see if it was feasible. From hundreds of tentative designs Loewy pulled a curve here, a hood there, a fender sweep yonder, then "mocked up" about a dozen experimental models in clay, one-quarter size, and worked on them. Says Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance: "I have seen Loewy shake his head in disapproval, then take out a knife and with one sweep correct the clay model to perfection...
Overlapping departments under the old Plan B charter and caused doubling on single jobs and padding employees of the independent staffs. Atkinson, to avoid the unpleasantness of wholesale firing, reduced the size of the city staff by waiting for city employees to retire or leave. The vacated posts were then abolished. Most recent statistics on City employment put the Cambridge staff at about 2000 employers--approximately 1000 fewer than were drawing pay checks...
...main reason for the savings is that books are classified by size instead of subject matter, which allows twice as many books to be crowded into a certain space. This makes it rather difficult to find books on a certain subject; the seeker must know the position of each separate volume...