Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian his last name means bayonet man), the real military brain behind the North Korean army. Titularly Soviet ambassador to the Korean "People's Republic," he is actually Stalin's proconsul, ruling North Korea (through Kim II Sung) from his roomy, three-story mansion, built on the site of the old Presbyterian Mission compound in Pyongyang. Burly, deadpanned, boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that any man who trusted another...
After the machines came the men. On nearby slabs already dry, they worked in crews of two and three, laying bricks, raising studs, nailing lath, painting, sheathing, shingling. Each crew did its special job, then hurried on to the next site. Under the skilled combination of men & machines, new houses rose faster than Jack ever built them; a new one was finished every 15 minutes...
...Sons on housing goes much further than the thresholds of its own houses. Its methods of mass production are being copied by many of the merchant builders in the U.S., who are putting up four of every five houses built today. It is such mass production on one huge site which is enabling U.S. builders to meet the postwar demand and to create the biggest housing boom in U.S. history...
Already the water engineers have sunk four successful wells in the Chandigarh Valley-in each case the site was pointed out by the traditional Hindu water diviner. After the September monsoons, building will start on government employees' housing. Says the Punjab's Chief Minister Gopi Bhargava: "It will be the world's most charming capital...
...While Norway's King Haakon and 30,000 of his subjects watched in silence, Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled a heroic granite statue of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt on a site overlooking Oslo Harbor. Then Mrs. Roosevelt thanked her hosts, Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, and was off to Stockholm for a little visit with Sweden's King Gustaf...