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...spent in constructing 644,000 miles of roads, 77,000 bridges, 116,000 buildings (schools, city halls, libraries, hospitals, police stations, armories, courthouses, museums), and enlarging and improving 800 airports. WPA also published a series of state guidebooks, decorated many a public building with murals, restored many a historic shrine, sponsored tuberculosis research...
...were told by Sam that "Ria says" this or that ought to be done; they did it. She heard that the outworn U.S.S. Oregon, relic of the Spanish-American War, was to be decommissioned by the Navy. Said she: it ought to be brought to Portland, turned into a shrine. Soon the massive battleship was anchored in the Willamette River in downtown Portland...
Persuasion by Thuggery. Late one Sunday afternoon in May, 1932, nine naval and military officers between 24 and 28 years old got out of two taxis at the side entrance of Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, dedicated to Japan's war dead. They were typical "young officers," men with masklike faces. In the shrine they doffed their caps, clasped hands, bowed stiffly. Then they piled back into their cabs and drove to the official residence of the Premier of Japan...
...love has reared their earthly shrine, Their glory be forever thine...
...published a photograph] showing the meeting of General Homma and General Wainwright on May 5. Are you able to reconcile this with the following from TIME, March 16: "After an honorable funeral, the late General Homma's ashes were flown to Tokyo for internment in an honorable shrine...