No wonder the boss hired Wright for Wingspread, a graceful knoll-top house whose wings, to borrow the language of the art historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, " ride the grassed slopes as if they were floating on waves ."
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He provided no link in the cite, but I went looking for it and found it here, at the advocacy site " endocrinedisruption . net " : [ http : / / www . endocrinedisruption . org / files / wingspread _ consensus _ statement . pdf.
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To combat the leaky roofs of Wingspread, a Prairie-style home Wright designed for the floor-wax millionaire Herbert F . Johnson in Racine, Wis ., Silman's firm found the solution was carbon fiber, a material that did not exist when the house was built.
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"' Wingspread "', also known as the "'Herbert F . Johnson House "', is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr ., and built in 1938 39 in the village of Racine, Wisconsin.
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I would choose Racine, not only because it is closer but also because you can visit there both the headquarters of S . C . Johnson Co . ( guided tours on Fridays ) and Wingspread, home of Hibbard Johnson, who was the company's president ( self-guided tours Monday through Friday ).
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And so the national emblem, which, at full wingspread, fits neatly into the 15 / 16 of an inch on the reverse side of the quarter, would be replaced by a yet-to-be-determined image of a state _ a Treasury Department report released earlier this month did not say what kind.
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The 1998 Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle summarises the principle this way : " When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically . " The Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle was convened by the Science and Environmental Health Network.
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The 1998 Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle summarises the principle this way : " When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically . " The Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle was convened by the Science and Environmental Health Network.
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It's been compared to Hearst's legendary San Simeon a thousand miles down the coast ( built with his newspaper fortune ), or to Vanderbilt's Biltmore ( railroads ), Ford's Fairlane ( automobiles ), Johnson's Wingspread ( floorwax ), Carnegie's Fifth Avenue mansion ( steel ) or Aaron Spelling's preposterous Hollywood manor ( soap operas ).
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Its ascendancy _ and its unconventional spirit _ came into public view in 1939, when the company hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design its headquarters here, a building best known for its huge, open interior spaces and the golf-tee-like columns that held up the floors above . ( Two years later, Wright designed Wingspread, the majestic Prairie-style Racine home where the current Sam Johnson grew up .)
