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...South St. Louis, near the bleak and dreary Mississippi riverfront, there stands a gingerbread jumble of 100 buildings which form a city in themselves. They cover an area larger (72 city blocks) than Chicago's Loop, contain a spic & span power plant big enough to serve a city the size of Dallas, and are surrounded with as much rail trackage as Indianapolis. Each year, the buildings consume 3,522,980,000 gallons of water, 4,500,000 bushels of malted barley and the entire output (192,000 tons) of a nearby coal mine. Over them all hangs the sick...
Waving goodbye from the platform of his spic & span railway car, hitched on to a string of 16 other railway cars, Harry Truman rolled out of Washington on his 9,000-mile coast to coast tour...
Nowhere did this action meet with greater approval than in Bogotá itself, where Bogotanos had despaired of having their mountain capital spic & span for the January meeting. For seven months, 500 men had been on the job from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., refurbishing the century-old Capitolio Nacional, where the sessions will be held. Behind locked doors, Artist Martinez Delgado painted until 2 a.m. on a fresco depicting Bolivar's inauguration in 1821. The block-long Ministry of Government building on the Avenida Jiménez de Quesada was only half-scoured, the cleaned marble and sandstone...
Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...
...Berlin this week a school opened that was something to write home about. And a good many of its U.S. teachers did. Running from nursery to college age, the school was housed in a spic-&-span 35-room building in suburban Dahlem; it had fully equipped laboratories for physics, chemistry and biology; its textbooks were so new that many of them are not yet in use in U.S. schools; its teachers all had places to live. But it was not for Germans...