Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tons of rocks had to be blasted out of the belly of the mountain. But to Generalissimo Franco in 1941 such obstacles were minor. Gradually, in the Valley of the Fallen, in memory of the million Spaniards killed during the Civil War, there rose the great monument and mausoleum where he and those who had died for the cause of "liberation" were to be buried...
...slaves for his pyramid, but he did have the next best thing. Political prisoners were brought to the Valley as laborers, until it was found that their inefficiency and subtle sabotage were more costly than regular workers. Since 1949, an average of 700 men have been working on the monument; at one point the number rose to 2.000. To keep everyone happy. Architect Diego Mendez paid them $2 a day, twice as much as they would have earned elsewhere...
...them either to put up or shut down. Other Spaniards, traveling the nearby highway, grumbled about the tunnel five miles from the Valley that never got built; it was supposed to replace the treacherous mountain pass on which dozens of motorists lose their lives each year. While the big monument had all the men and machines it needed, nothing was available for the tunnel...
...from March 1933 to the end of 1934. Originally. The Age of Roosevelt was to have been a one-volume job. but Harvard's Historian Schlesinger became so fascinated with his subject that he now expects he may need four or more volumes before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written. And while there is a firmer effort to be objective, the method...
Unharmed and unfazed, he continued his walk. He peered into parking meters, was disappointed to find out that he could not ride to the top of the Washington Monument (the elevator was under repair), sniffed at U.S. modern art at the Corcoran Gallery ("It looks like something my grandchildren might...