Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo last week guidebooks heralded a monument Publisher Shoriki had raised to himself. He opened a 436-ft. TV tower, one of the tallest structures in the city, equipped with an elevator so that sightseers can "get a view of Tokyo equal to the birds'." Said Publisher Shoriki matter-of-factly: "The people of Japan expect Shoriki to do things bigger and better than anyone else...
...bomb's destructive radius would make the base untenable in a major war. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler then got up to say that he was not prepared to continue spending ?50 million yearly to maintain the canal base as an imperial monument...
...first found and named the 14,000-ft. mountain with the cross, formed by two great snow-packed crevices. After Jackson's picture made the mountain celebrated, pilgrims and plain tourists came by the thousands. Eventually, just 25 years ago, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the mountain a national monument. With due ceremony, Colorado last week began to celebrate the monument's 25th anniversary...
...Colonel Robert L. Schulz, to arrange a trip. Who paid the fare was a secret last week, but White House sources guessed that Ike himself had a share in paying it. After shaking hands with Mr. Hunt, the President asked the children where they had been. To the Washington Monument, they said-"up to the top!" Grinned the President...
After lunch at Virginia House, a handsome Tudor mansion on the banks of the James River, Ike and Mamie motored through intermittent rain and hail showers to Fredericksburg, where the President placed a pungent boxwood wreath on the monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first President. In Fredericksburg, Ike met two lively old ladies. Mrs. Julia Link Wine and her twin sister, Mrs. Martha Link Quick, 85, who had gone to school with Ike's mother and turned out to be his distant cousins. He had come to Fredericksburg, said the President, "to pay tribute to the state...