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...amateur's job of lath and inch-thick cement. Half-inch ventilation holes were drilled through another wall into a hallway. The only other opening was a hole six by eight inches in the chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda...
Davenport plans to finish the whole thing this term. Then the press will hold another field day, and the public will finally get into the grey, windowless building on Oxford Street. What they'll see will be the biggest machine in the University push the smallest thing in the Universe at the fastest speed made...
...buildings, said Mumford, were too high. Children could not use the elevators alone; mothers could not keep an eye on them from their kitchen windows. The foyers were dark, windowless and waste space. Though subsidized by tax exemption, the apartments were not reserved for low-income families. The "completely asphalted" playgrounds were inadequate...
Next day I got ready to accompany a group of "have-money people" on a flight from Peiping to Shanghai. Under the curved roof of a windowless Quonset hut at Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed...
...streamlined automobiles (the old Hupmobile, the present Studebaker), railroad locomotives, club cars and coaches (for the Pennsylvania and the Monon), ships (the Matson line's Lurline), airplane interiors (Constellations), fountain pens (Eversharp), supermarkets (California's "Lucky" chain), department stores (Houston's new windowless' $12,000,000 Foley Bros...