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...Brewster carriages were in the stables of every Vanderbilt, Astor. Auchincloss and Gould. After James Brewster died in 1866 his son Henry carried on the business, branched into automobile bodies in 1907, aviation equipment during the War. The company's century-old reputation for workmanship was undimmed when Rolls-Royce, casting about for a body as good as its chassis, bought Brewster...
...should not miss "Plan", by Leonard Craske. The workmanship is excellent, and his conception reveals a delicacy and ability approaching genius. The courtyard will be open to the public until August...
This has been done by numerous writers at great length. Brief bibliography: Recent Social Trends (published Tan. 2. 1933), Vol. 1. Chapter 6, by Ralph G. liurlin and Meredith B. Givins. Thorstein Yeblen: Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904; The Instinct of Workmanship, 1918: 7 he Place of Science in Modern Civilization, 1910; The Engineers & the Price System, 1921. Frederick Soddy: Wealth, Virtual Wealth & Debt, 1926. Fred Henderson: Economic Consequences of Power Production, 1931. Alvin Harvey Hansen: Economic Stabilisation in an Unbalanced World, 1932. Paul H. Douglas & Aaron Director: Problem of Unemployment, 1931. Leon P. Alford: In Recent Economic Chanties...
...Plan, a school is not forced to devote so much effort to prepare its students for examinations. Rather the school is enabled to devote itself more completely to the development of sound minds, the underlying factor in making the college years a period of productive development and of mature workmanship...
...piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green...