Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of project-at once heartwarming, over-organized and unabashedly flamboyant-that Americans dote on. The townspeople of New Brunswick, NJ. had set out to build a home for 23-year-old ex-Marine Robert William Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs when he was hit by a Japanese bullet on Okinawa. It was just like an old-fashioned house-raising bee, except that it took place in the age of the assembly line and the publicity...
Murder of the Cathedral. Muscovites were likely to control their emotion. They could remember Moscow's first attempt to build a skyscraper, the Palace of Soviets, which was to be the world's biggest and grandest edifice. "The monument will be erected on a square [near] the Moskva River embankment," stated the plan, sponsored by Molotov. "The said square will be enlarged by tearing down the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer...
...playing around with the birds, bees and flowers, why doesn't the NAB dish out the facts of life?" NAB's Richard Doherty replied with some hard TV facts: an average TV station costs nearly as much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight for the ailing patient...
...Music Department does not attempt to build dilettantes and shakes no lonk hair, but holds closely to a technical approach. Many concentrators feel that this leaning backwards on the part of the department to escape a "Conservatory" approach has become a major weakness, for little opportunity for practical application of musical skill is given...
Shipping. The U.S. Maritime Commission gave the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the go-ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record...