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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even in the interests of international cooperation, one problem bothered ICA: under Point Four requirements, each building must be marked with a suitable inscription showing that the structure was built by U.S. taxpayers. The customary brass (cost: $7) or wooden (cost: about $2) plaques would be too expensive to install on buildings that cost $15 apiece. Besides, said one ICA health official, "brass and wood plaques are used to dignify a structure. You can't do that with these buildings." Last week the problem was solved. The markers will be suitably inscribed in the floor section of the concrete...
King fulfilled that need. From the wreckage of Pearl Harbor he built the greatest sea-air armada in history, and with cold will and intelligence led it to win the Battle of the Atlantic, break the back of the Japanese in the Pacific. Said his opposite number, Army Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall: "A master strategist...
...tiny (12,805 customers) Public Utility District No. 2, the farmers started signing their names 166,000 times on revenue bonds that will set in motion the nation's third biggest hydroelectric development (after Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams). It will be the first to be built under President Eisenhower's policy of power partnership between private and public utilities. The project: Columbia River dams and power plants at Priest Rapids and Wanapum, 200 miles downstream from Grand Coulee. When the $383.7 million complex is completed in 1963, it will generate 1,231,000 kw., almost twice...
Earth & Sky. As usual, Eero Saarinen has much to keep him busy far into the night. With 39 major structures already built, he has $35 million worth of works in progress, involving 50 buildings, 21 campus residences and one $300,000 house. As usual he is never completely satisfied with his own projects nor with the general state of his profession...
...FRENCH SUPERLINER will be built to ply North Atlantic runs, compete against British and U.S. vessels. To be named France, $78 million French Line ship will be 55,000 tons (v. 83,673 tons for Cunard's Queen Elizabeth), have luxury accommodations for 2,000 passengers on five-day crossing from Le Havre. First sailing: early...