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...Hillside development, for which ground was to be broken instanter, will provide 5,378 rooms for 1,581 families at an average of $11 per room per month. Designed by Architect Clarence S. Stein, who built a famed model colony at Radburn, N. J., the Hillside community's buildings occupy only 34% of their 697,000 sq. ft. site. There is a 2½-acre playground. Dead-end streets, footpaths and an underpass to the school across an arterial highway from the development safeguard children. Most of the buildings will be four-story walk-ups. Some will...
Unperturbed by a protest brought before the R. F. C. by the Board of Estimate and New York realtors, many of whose boxlike Bronx apartment houses are tenantless, Mr. Straus, Architect Stein and Andrew Eken announced: "The granting of the loan . . . marks, we hope and believe, a milestone in better housing for people of limited means. Governmental encouragement of such work will provide immediate employment for more than 1,000 men on the Hillside housing operation. . . . Further similar action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corp. will provide the greatest possible stimulus to employment, as well as create a lasting...
...Architect of the Supreme Court's new home is Cass Gilbert whose design is along classic Corinthian lines, with simple masses carefully proportioned. Builder is George A. Fuller Co. The building's overall measurements are 385 ft. by 304 ft. With the exterior finished in Vermont marble, Alabama marble will be used on the interior, Georgia marble will be used in the four courtyards. At Architect Gilbert's insistence and to the dismay of penny-pinching Congressmen, the Court chamber itself will be finished in Italian and Spanish marbles-a fact so far discreetly soft-pedaled...
...useful to them. There were years of dispute until Richard Montgomery Tobin, onetime (1923-29) Minister to The Netherlands took command. As a veteran and a music- enthusiast he was able to reconcile both factions. A $4.000,000 bond issue was floated, one-third of which the city subscribed. Architect Arthur Brown Jr. with Albert Lansburgh collaborating designed twin buildings (one for veterans' organizations, one for opera). They are dignified granite and terra cotta structures which harmonize with the new City Hall at the centre of the civic group which includes the State Building, the Auditorium and the Public...
...chuckle as he staggers out of the surf with his alert, parody Boy Scout expression, ready for any emergency Scenarist Tom Geraghty may devise. Having landed June i, by June 24 he has made saws, jugs, hammocks, hatchet, carpenter's plane, outhouse with scroll-sawed star & crescent, pickaxe, baskets, architect's plans; has taught a parrot to say "O.K.," his dog to be civil to a monkey that vaguely resembles Fairbanks. Soon afterward he has dug traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow food...