Word: designs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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School of Design: Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., by appointment...
...done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit planes. Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks to its new P-47, powered with a 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engine. Republic designers declared the new P47 (to go into production in a new factory within a few weeks) would top 400 miles an hour, would have a fighting altitude of 40,000 ft. Apparently the Air Corps was convinced that the P47 was good enough, for it threw overboard its policy of buying...
Last week Minister for Aircraf Production Lord Beaverbrook praised two boys "from the back room" who had helped design "the big beautiful bombs" which were Britain's new present to Germany: Squadron Leader Robert Henry Garner and Air Commodore Patrick Huskinson...
Dean Joseph Hudnut, of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, has a seeing eye for architectural pretense. He has paid his respects to the campuses of the large Eastern colleges in a little pamphlet called The Gothick Universitie; he has likened Washington's unfinished Jefferson Memorial to "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." Last week Dean Hudnut took a look at the National Gallery. Wrote he (in an article in the Magazine...
...dynamic Mrs. Dorothy Christie, wife of a Montreal ski maker, most women's war work is "a lot of hooey." Embarked on a hooeyless project of her own design, she is now collecting the last of a flood of dimes, quarters and dollars from other Canadian women named Dorothy, which should in a week or so pay for a Spitfire for the R.A.F...