Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thinking of the sorrows he had already borne-following first his father's coffin (1934) and the next year his young wife's -other nations wondered what his reward for being a model modern monarch would be-whether Belgium would be saved from the Nazi juggernaut or go down to bloody defeat and national extinction. If the former, he could thank his Allies. If the latter, it would be chiefly because King Leopold, gentleman and sportsman, was (like most Western World democrats) unconditioned to survive in a world containing Adolf Hitler...
...smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant in the shops of Alliance (Ohio) Machine Co. His foreman at Alliance, the late Charles T. Williams (no relation), became the model of Bull of the Woods. Meanwhile, Jim Williams had been taking a course in cartooning from the International Correspondence School. All the drawings he submitted to the papers bounced back...
...wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...
Sculptor Noguchi worked for about a year at a full-scale plaster model from which the steel plaque could be cast. The plaster model (17 by 22 ft.) took up his entire studio from floor to roof. Shipped to Boston in nine pieces, Noguchi's model provided General Alloys Co. with one of the biggest casting problems in its history. Because Noguchi's plaque, News, was 20 times larger than any sculptural casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster...
...tell all he knows, Britain's Purvis last week gave no breakdown of his first $200,000,000-plus in orders for the newest model U. S. ships. But the general division was soon noised about. To Douglas went the big slice: $75,000,000 for 750 attack-bombers. Curtiss got around $57,000,000 for 1,500 new pursuits. Bell $18,000,000 for 200 Airacobras. To the three engine builders went some $52,000,000, most ($34,000,000) to Allison, already busy with expansion of its Indianapolis plant and making some parts (e. g., crank...