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Word: rotterdam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nazi Stukas zeroed in on Rotterdam on May 10, 1940, and they did not let up until they had leveled or gutted 11,000 buildings. But well before liberation, an underground city-planning commission went to work drafting plans for the 20th century Rotterdam that is now risen from the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Beehive | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened up the curtain wall with bands of windows for the interior restaurant and executive offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Beehive | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...major problem Architect Breuer had to solve was wished on him by a few fluke misses by the Luftwaffe and the decision of the Rotterdam planning commission to incorporate the beneficiaries of those misses-two surviving buildings-into the pattern of the widened street, making it necessary to bring the building line forward at each street corner. To avoid an L-shaped building, Breuer hit on the idea of letting sculpture take care of the bulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Beehive | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Cramped Ground. In Manhattan, after he arrived by ship from Rotterdam, Motorbike Tourist Hugo De Wys scouted the area, regretfully told well-wishers he would have to leave immediately because there was no place to pitch his tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that the Suez closing would require the addition of at least 144 tankers just to handle the substitute oil shipments from the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has 34 in reserve. Last week the U.S. took six of the T25 out of mothballs, put them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Middle-East Echoes | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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