Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain guaranties" regarding movements of French ships in U.S. waters; 2) commits France to notify the U.S. in advance concerning any shipment of the estimated $200,000,000 gold hoard from the Bank of France, now stored in the fortress at Martinique; 3) allows the U.S. to patrol the neighborhood of France's Caribbean islands by ship and plane...
Colonel Westbrook believes that his plan combines the advantages of both ownership and rental. Moreover, it will give residents substantial savings in maintenance costs (through centralized staff and purchases), will protect them against neighborhood deterioration by insuring that no building will fall into disrepair or be replaced by a hot-dog stand. Still more hopeful is the fact that the Camden Plan is not subsidy housing. Although a small subsidy was provided at Audubon Village to make up for construction delays caused by bad weather and a strike, the plan's basic principle is for projects...
Though the Radcliffe anti-publicity office withheld names, there was ample indication that the neighborhood girls were overjoyed at the prospect of a visit from "eight Harvard men,--all at once." Fifteen girls volunteered immediately to hold the cumbersome high wheelers steady while their riders clambered into the saddle...
Last week thousands of war-worried U.S. citizens strolled from their neighborhood cinemas with a lighter step. These heartened cinemagoers had seen a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short subject, More About Nostradamus, now playing in some 200 U.S. cinema houses. According to the fabled Renaissance Prophet Nostradamus, Hitler would be licked and everything was going to come out all right...
...November 1936 most of the building, including one of the ugly twin towers, burned to the ground. But the North Tower remained. Recently the neighborhood began to think the Luftwaffe was using the tower as a landmark. The Supply Ministry also wanted its 840 tons of wrought and cast iron. So, one day last week, engineers packed 120 Ib. of gelignite against one side of the tower, touched it off, and watched this appendix of Victorian days topple...