Am cassandre biography of albert einstein

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    Travel to New York by Sea: From Steerage to Floating Palaces

    While it was privately owned by the French Line, the Normandie’s construction was subsidized by the French government to support the French craft industry during a period of economic depression—and intended as a monument to French artistry and technological progress. (It certainly helped that the ship was awarded the much-coveted Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger ship on its maiden voyage—in a mere 4 days, 3 hours, and 14 minutes). The final product incorporated traditional styles filtered through the opulent, streamlined lens of Art Deco. The Grand Salon, for example, was decorated by a series of four gilded-glass murals showing fantasy vessels and mythological figures, designed by Jean Dupas and executed by Charles Champigneulle, while its floor was covered by the world’s largest hand-woven carpet, custom-made by Aubusson. 

    In addition to exceptionally sumptuous private cabins, the

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    EINSTEIN, ALBERT.

    Autograph Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), in German, 1 p, 4to, March 20, ,

    History of Science

    22 October , EDT

    New York

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    EINSTEIN, ALBERT.

    Autograph Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), in German, 1 p, 4to, March 20, , n.p., to Hans Reichenbach, folding creases, chip to bottom corner, slight toning, two-hole punch to left margin.

    "I HAVE NOW GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCING ON THIS FORMAL PATH." Einstein writes to his friend and colleague, the philosopher of science Dr. Hans Reichenbach (), who had two years earlier published an axiomatic analysis of the theory of relativity. In the first paragraph Einstein updates Reichenbach on his efforts to

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    Walter Paul Paepcke (–) was only 25 when he inherited his father&#;s Chicago-based wooden crate empire. Sensing the shift to a consumer goods-driven economy and the need for smaller, lighter packaging, he began moving production from wooden crates to paperboard containers. His bet on the cardboard box paid off and he was soon the owner of several small wood and paper mills that he consolidated into the Container Corporation of amerika (CCA).

    In time the CCA would become the largest cardboard manufacturer in the world - having 76 US and 48 international facilities- but that was a long way off in the middle of the great depression.1 To bolster the company&#;s beskrivning with their institutional customers and investors Paepcke decided he needed to began advertising.

    It was his wife Elizabeth Nitze Paepcke, a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago and a theater and store designer, who educated him about art and suggested using destinguished, avant-garde designers rather than co

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