Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance to examine...
...Washington, stocky Prince Tsunenori Kaya, first cousin of the Empress of Japan, and his tall, toothy wife, Princess Toshiko, last fortnight peered up at the Washington Monument. "How high is it?" asked the Prince. ''It is 555 ft. 5⅛ in.," replied his guide. "How easy to remember!" exclaimed the Princess. "Just half the Empire State Building." She was not quite right. The Empire State Building...
...Prince and Princess put off their U. S. tour four months, they would have found the height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...
...years ago is a proposition only recently established by Dr. Rosenberg. Charlemagne represented an "alien principle" (Christianity) whereas the Saxons with whom he did battle were archetypal Nazis fighting for "blood and soil." Charlemagne slew 4,500 Saxons at Verden and there this spring Dr. Rosenberg had a monument of 4,500 stone blocks erected in their honor. Unmoved by twits from the Catholic press for rewriting history to suit his own beliefs, Dr. Rosenberg orated: "After, 1,000 years . . . the will of the old Saxons became victorious through national socialism...
...materials are far from being the most expensive item in a tombstone. A $500 granite monument of average size contains only $36 in materials. The rest is workmanship. Ordinary stonecutters get $9 a day in Chicago and Boston, $10 in New York. Carvers get as high as $18 a day. But all work on granite tombstones is hazardous, especially sandblasting, because of the danger of silicosis infection. The average sandblaster is ready for his own tombstone...