Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharp there was a fanfare of trumpets from the municipal band. "Defense absolue de fumer!" roared the loudspeakers around the park. With a hiss and a rush, the mixture of hydrogen and municipal cooking gas poured into the first of the great balloons lying limp on the greensward of Le Mans' Quinconces des Jacobins. At home, the housewives of Le Mans were busily trying to cook their Sunday dinners, so from time to time the gas had to be turned off again. But in the park a milling crowd of 10,000 cheered lustily...
...jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...shoe factory, a heel factory and a rayon mill-all in St. Georges (pop. 6,000). Most of his rayon-mill hands-he runs two shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.-are daughters of local farmers. About 50 of them live in Le Foyer, a dormitory built as an annex to the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. On the first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls can entertain Sunday afternoons and evenings and two or three nights a week...
Dionne, a religious man who goes to Mass every morning, is also a believer in the letter of the law. He keeps wages in most cases close to the legal minimum of 20? an hour, or $9.60 for a 48-hour week. Girls housed at Le Foyer spend $6 of this amount for board & keep...
...explained his needs to UNRRA officials. The 100 girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...