Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...granite, with a 30-ton door) will be on the main floor, in full view (with a spotlight on it at night). Another feature: a penthouse for executive offices and dining room. Like the Lever Building, the air-conditioned bank's windows will be sealed to keep out dust and grime. Says Skidmore: "We're trying to make the bank more human...
Gaveled Fingers. In both private and public life, he has what amounts to a phobia about letting decisions hang fire. (Once he starts a whodunit for relaxation, he cannot relax until he reads through to the end.) At the Statehouse he has tackled problems which have been gathering dust in pigeonholes for years. One of the most urgent economic problems concerns Massachusetts' migrating manufacturers. Herter is well aware that New England is in economic straits because much of her industry has been moving to other parts of the country. But he has not placed the blame entirely on immutable...
...them up so that the Chinese might not sneak in and recover them. Heavy timbers, imported from the U.S., were salvaged and trucked to the rear. Camouflage netting and barbed wire were rolled up and taken away. For three days roads near the front were churned to dust as hundreds of trucks, shuttling to and from the front, carted off tons of ammunition, guns, flamethrowers, heavy machine guns, stoves, radios and telephone wire. Rear units knocked down tents and mess halls that had stood undisturbed for two years. Artillery pieces backed out of semipermanent, neatly fenced-in positions, surrounded...
...drought-stricken Texas last week, a dust storm blew up over the Government's $150-million emergency relief program. In his weekly Rails Banner, Editor Ernest Joiner declared: "Fully half of the aid given here has gone into the hands of wealthy men. This writer, for one, is damned tired of his hard-earned money going into the pockets of wealthy...
...have the time and energy to pick up more than a few words. So he learned about the Koreans from what he saw, and through the Pidgin English the Koreans themselves put together. In the back of a truck, choking on the fine, powdery Korean dust, wondering how the Koreans could live in it, he suddenly saw a Korean coughing too, and he realized that the armies had stirred up the dust and the Koreans suffered from it "same-same...