Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corbusier is drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...reconversion blueprint calls for these steps...
...Union has been in the making ever since the Brazzaville Conference of early 1944. There Charles de Gaulle's ministers began to blueprint a grand United States of France, girdling the globe and revolutionary in its treatment of colonials. Within the Union they plan a wide measure of economic and political decentralization, a great development of education and sanitation, an exploitation of resources for the benefit of the inhabitants, a rapid training of colonials in democratic administration...
Some microbes have done double jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...
Without Bergner, this play is nothing more than a well produced terror show made from an often-used blueprint. With Bergner, "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" is transformed into one of the most enjoyable pieces of serious drama of the season...