Archive for September, 2006

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. It is a [...]

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 kind [...]

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 has [...]

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 forced [...]

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 weather, slippery [...]

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 ever [...]

Beautifying Service Stations 1927

NOW that the automotive industry has developed to the point where methods and products are fairly standard it would be appropriate if a good measure of attention might be given to the more attractive design of buildings.
MoToR asked James R e n w i c k Thomson, a New York architect, his opinion of the [...]

The Bungalows Furniture

If, after having been built with great respect for harmony and appropriateness, the bungalow should be filled with the usual collection of badly designed and inadequate furniture, the ensemble would be distressing, and the thought involved in the structure of the building thrown away.
The term furniture implies, per se, movable portions of the building, and, [...]

1930 Indianapolis 500 Rules

YOUNG America is interested in the 500-mile race at Indianapolis, next Memorial Day. Interested, because in a measure the bars have been let down. This year it will not be necessary to spend the large sum for a mount which regulations since the War have required. The youth can take the roadster his father gave [...]

Radio in Automobiles 1930

IS radio entertainment going to take to wheels? Is the equipment of a few thousand of the world’s thirty million cars with receivers and speakers to be extended until a majority of motorists, bowling along the open road or parked at a secluded recreation spot, can tune in on symphony or jazz, sermon or monologue, [...]