Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief fireman, policeman and garbage collector. He commanded housewives to hang their laundry out of sight, abolished pushcarts, opened sheltered markets, dispatched dredges to the silted canals, bought 60 new garbage trucks for Bangkok, ordered pedicabs off the street. When a rash of fires broke out in the business district last winter. Sarit raced to the scene one night, ordered four Chinese merchants shot on the spot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning down shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year celebration was thenceforth taboo. Fortnight ago. prowling La Guardia-style about...
...painted centuries ago, the paintings are "touched" (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich's Ethnographical Museum last week hung copies of a much older and almost unknown aboriginal art. discovered by the museum director, Andreas Lommel, in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia. Smaller, more naturalistic and far more elegant than Wondjina art, they date back at least a thousand years...
After long debate, federal officials decided that Carbondale's unusual plight made it deserving of federal help. The present agreement makes the stricken city an urban redevelopment district. Two million dollars will come from the Federal Government, $1,000,000 from the state. Homes and other real estate in the threatened area (130 acres) will be-bought at fair prices. Then massive dragline excavators will attack the fire by digging huge trenches around the burning coal...
...claim that the Metropolitan District Commission has granted the C.D.F. "exclusive use ... of the new Art Center Theatre for the next several years and possibly long thereafter." This is mere conjecture on your part. The M.D.C. has not made any long-range commitments for the Theatre's use; so why do you want to stir up trouble before any has arisen...
From the ricksha-cluttered commercial district of Shanghai to the waterfront of Tientsin, hardly a Western businessman could be found last week in all of Red China. The traders who came and went with revolving-door regularity only a few months ago, crying the benefits of trade with the Chinese Communists, have returned disillusioned to Germany, Italy, Great Britain, France, Canada. What soured them on doing business behind the Bamboo Curtain was no political change of heart, but the best reason a businessman can have: unbusinesslike methods of doing business, developed by the Chinese into an exasperating art. Snapped...