Archive for September, 2006

Problems in Palestine 1929

DIVIDING THE BLAME FOR PALESTINE BLOODSHED THE ARROGANCE of the so-called Zionist Revolutionists is doubtless a causative factor behind the Moslem outbreaks against the Jews, says The American Hebrew (New York), in apportioning the blame among all those immediately concerned in the blood-letting in Palestine. Primary responsibility is placed on the British authorities for permitting [...]

American Drama 1916 Part 2

WHAT was needed to remake the theater was not better managers, better actors, better playwrights, butâ€”fore and aftâ€” that same sixth sense, a “national consciousness” that would enable us to distinguish the better ones when we saw them. We needed to think “theater” in America, not solely as a place for entertainment, but also as [...]

American Drama 1916 Part 1

A SPECIAL YEAR OF AMERICAN DRAMA: BY EDITH J. R. ISAACS (Chairman American Drama Committee, Drama League of America) IN China, any man who writes an unmoral play is threatened by the social religious code with a purgatory lasting as long as his play continues to be produced. This is exactly as it should be. [...]

Small Houses 1916

LITTLE HOUSES IN BRICK AND STUCCO REASONABLENESS and imagination, recognized by the Mediaeval builders as the underlying principles of all great architecture. should be as inseparably united in the small home of today us they were in the great cathedrals of old. For the little house is an expression of thought, though a very different [...]

Prices of Building Materials 1916

THE TREND OF PRICES OF BUILDING MATERIALS AMONG architects and others interested in the cost of building, the actual situation in the construction field is not always entirely understood, and at the present time particularly the percentages of increase in prices of materials that have taken place since the effect of the war in Europe [...]

Road Improvement in America 1916

BY J. B. STONE-KING, M. E. THERE is such a heavy increase of traffic on all roads in this country, more especially on the main trunk highways between cities and towns of importance and the roads leading from the more populous country districts into the markets, that a very necessary and radical change has been [...]

Four Wheel Brakes 1924

Four Wheel Brakes Most Valuable Development By Fred S. Duesenberg, Chief Engineer Duesenberg A. & M. Co. I BELIEVE the adoption of four wheel brakes the most valuable of present-day developments as it is such a factor tending for greater safety to the motorist and of equal importance to the pedestrian. In rainy and icy [...]

Balloon Tire Big 1924 Feature

By H. T. Thomas, Chief Engineer Reo Motor Car Co. OUTSTANDING developments and improvements in 1924 passenger cars as we see it are not the features most widely advertised or talked about. Detail improvements of all kinds are giving to the 1924 purchasers of motor cars greater comfort, safety and more for their money than [...]