Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disused but in good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks...
...Karfiol of the Painters, Sculptors & Gravers proposed that his society boycott all museums that would not pay a monthly rental of 1% of the appraised valuation of the pictures exhibited. Such payments would probably bring the average exhibiting artist more than $100 a year, just about enough to meet repair expenses...
Besides the mire and dust of gravel paths there is a greater total expense to the university. Asphalt requires very little upkeep and makes snow removal infinitely cheaper and more rapid. The use of dangerous and unsightly narrow wooden walks in winter is unnecessary; the expensive storage and repair of these may be abandoned...
Under him, FHA has accelerated its insurance on construction and repair loans to the rate of $60,000,000 per month, takes part of the credit for the current up-curve in the building business...
...Country!" Meanwhile last week Benito Mussolini was trying to repair the stupidity he has committed for months in not courting World public opinion. No democratic leader would have dreamed of preparing a war without making it appear Right & Just in advance. Il Duce, whose entire career has been studded with such aphorisms as "Fascism has already stepped and, if need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games...