Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have rebuilt and restocked their own country, Finnish architects and designers have stamped it with a clean, distinctively Finnish elegance that makes Leningrad, less than an hour's flight away, look drab. To the delight of sauna-worshiping Finns, the sauna vogue has become international, providing Finland with a new export...
...took a long-ignored Second Empire decree signed by Napoleon III in 1852 requiring facades to be washed every ten years, and impassioned pressure from Minister of Culture André Malraux. In practice, the government rarely has to fine building owners, for landlords can ease the cost of cleaning by borrowing as much as 40% of the tab. Face-washing a private apartment house costs about $2,000. To clean the 18th century building in the Place de la Concorde that houses the Morgan Bank,* the Automobile Club of France and the famed Hôtel Crillon, cost about...
...refineries from letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly irritating to the eyes, but now, at least it is "clean," a glaring whitish color with practically no soot or smoke particles...
...year history, the school was housed in a jumble of buildings in downtown Manila. U.S. airmen bombed them during World War II, and between bombings Manila's Japanese occupiers burned many of the library's 160,000 books for fuel. In 1948 the university made a clean break by moving to a sprawling new 1,125-acre campus on the outskirts of Manila...
Fair Fight. Its most important contract, for an undisclosed sum in the millions, is to clean and maintain the grounds and many of the buildings at the New York World's Fair. Last week newspapers around the U.S. blossomed with stories about angry Fair exhibitors who charged that they were being taken to the cleaners by their cleaners. Some of them growled about exorbitant charges for such simple chores as unstopping a sink and emptying garbage. The most general complaint was against the high cost of temporary help, called in to perform specialized, emergency jobs. To get a carpenter...