Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales. The old brick palace suffered mainly from blast. All its stained glass on the north side was blown in, along with the great mullioned windows of the Chapel Royal. The clock face in the north side of the tower, a London landmark, was blown away...
Inside the historic landmark, correspondents found German hand grenades piled beside the headless statue of St. Benedict. Elsewhere there were bazookas, many cases of mortar ammunition, machine guns (the Germans had cried in February that the abbey was not being used for military purposes...
...York City lost a major landmark -a gregarious, white-maned, 70-year-old supersalesman, one of the last of the P. T. Barnum era-Joseph Paul Day. Auctioneer Day had sold more real estate in & around New York City than any other single human being in the memory of man. As far back as 1935 his transactions were totted up to $1.5 billion. And years before he died last week in Manhattan's Flower Hospital, he had become a millionaire-and a legend...
...meat barrels, there were the objects which testified to the sense of constant danger and the sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of pitch on Beacon Hill in Boston, to be lighted in case of attack, was a far more meaningful landmark than the fire-alarm boxes on contemporary corners-though the menace it was intended to warn against may have been less than city dwellers face today. The animals were strange and exotic, the trees and plants were rare, the hazards of the quixotic weather were untested, and the Indians, savage...
...freedom-loving people of Sweden. Words of welcome for the new edition range from the restrained "most significant" of famed builder Erik Fernström to the ringing acknowledgment of General B. G. Nordenskiöld, Chief of the Swedish Air Force, who calls TIME-in-Sweden "a landmark in transatlantic communication...