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Combustion. The atmosphere was the same in most of Cape Province's polyglot cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often...
Japanese are used to catastrophe. Fifty percent of the matchstick houses rebuilt since the war have since burned down. And the people of Atami are known all over Japan for their cheerfulness...
Harry Bridges knotted-a brown-and-yellow necktie around his matchstick neck one day and betook himself to San Francisco's federal court. "It's my homestretch tie," Harry explained. "It has never failed me in the homestretch...
...Spit & Matchstick. As "depression architects," the partners had learned all about making a dollar go far. On one of their first jobs-redesigning Los Angeles' Clifton's Cafeteria in 1933-they took out their fees in meals. When their plans won first place in a competition for the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Wurdeman, a good man with a racket, spent his share of the fee to join the Westside Tennis Club-and incidentally to get some business from its Hollywood members. Soon Wurdeman & Becket were building actors' homes by the dozen. From then on, as Wurdeman says...
...Walt & Welt's home designing on a mass production basis. They put up housing for 50,000 workers in California's mushrooming war industries, and soon they had 83 assistants working for them. "It was spit and matchstick stuff," Wurdeman says, "but it made us build a big organization and got us so we weren't appalled at big jobs...