Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month, the fate of Berlin had been wearily discussed in Moscow. Then, one night last week, the Western powers' special envoys relaxed: they went to see Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina. They had achieved "agreement in principle" (TIME, Sept. 6) with Russia. Now, like a pea in a shell game, the problem was passed back to Berlin, where the four military governors of Germany were instructed to work out an agreement in practice...
...introduce looked stiff and lonely; they were transients, put there to emphasize the frozen rigor of the streets and buildings Hopper loves. At 66, in his deceptively simple pictures, he has done more than any other painter to define the beauty of Manhattan's steel, brick and brownstone shell...
...great conch shell no longer blew to summon the people together, but from all over the island, leaving their goats and gardens behind, the people came flocking to watch the carpenters at work. Not since the days of the Bounty mutineers had Pitcairn Island made such an ado over a building. The island was getting a new schoolhouse, and with it, its first properly trained teacher...
When the sheikh put his share in the lands up for auction, Gulf Oil Corp. and Shell Union Oil Corp. made token bids, and Independent walked off with the prize. One oilman said simply: "The whole industry stood on the sidelines and cheered." For Independent is an important face-saver-token "proof" that the U.S. does not maintain its strategic Middle East beachhead for the sole benefit of the companies that dominate the U.S. oil industry...
Nowadays, their 175-man construction gang does the entire job, from foundations to shell, but installations (plumbing, lighting, etc.) are farmed out to subcontractors. Since the Liberty partnership began operation, it has sold $6,500,000 worth of houses-at an average price of $14,000, an average profit of about 10%-and borrowed more than $5,000,000 to keep on building. Such narrow margins permit no dillydallying: before last week's 105-house sale, Liberty had already begun to lay the foundations for 47 houses in an adjoining area; they would be ready in about four months...