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Word: buildings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to build a goathouse first. But Mrs. Chamberlain reckoned without the small, slow grinding of the bureaucratic mills. Her application for a timber license bounced back & forth for 13 weeks, among six different government agencies. Baffled and angry, Mrs. Chamberlain wrote to the newspapers. Last week her story rang across all England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Timber | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Last week Wurdeman & Becket were hard at work on one of the West Coast's fattest architectural prizes: supervising the $31,000,000 building program for the University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Walt & Welt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Also in the running for the backfield berth is George Ceithaml, B squad coach and captain quarterback of Michigan's 1941 team. But the big objection to Ceithaml is the fact that if he joins Butch Jordan as a Valpey assistant, Crisler will have to build up his coaching staff again from scratch...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey May Lure Michigan Grid Coaching Aides Here | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

There were few construction workers in Scio, so Reese's pottery workers learned how to build. Men & women worked at a flat $1 an hour, many for 48 hours a week. The women's clubs served meals on the job. The Quonset buildings went up four times as fast as they had even in disaster-stricken Texas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Potluck | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...nails from being driven into the woodwork, because they might disfigure the stage for its paramount functions as a concert or lecture platform. Scenery has had to be hauled on and off stage for each performance or rehearsal; there are no dressing rooms or places where stage crews can build scenery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

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