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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planning board further suggested that the Observatory grounds be turned into a neighborhood park since the College has "no immediate need" of the land for expansion of its academic plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners Oppose University's New Housing Project | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Board Sees Park Dearth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners Oppose University's New Housing Project | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Last week, after annual maneuvers off the coast, the Royal Australian Navy put into Melbourne in time to make some bets. They were joined by thousands of high-talking, high-betting landlubbers who overflowed hotels, slept on park benches. There was no overpowering favorite in this year's Cup, and no apparent skulduggery-although Count Cyrano, a lukewarm choice, fell in a workout two days before the race and had to be destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Day Down Under | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Master Builder. During World War II he had a peak of $150 million worth of buildings under way at one time, spent a year completing the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. "Sometimes," says McShain, "there's money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: White House Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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