Word: teak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work in the U.N.'s "glass house," overlooking Manhattan's East River. A shaft of gleaming white marble boxing 5,400 green-tinted windows, the U.N. capitol was built on land that was paid for by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (price: $8,500,000) and furnished with teak from Burma, Jerusalem stone from Israel, carpets from India and Iran, and dramatically barren decoration by the Scandinavians. The U.N. Plaza has become Manhattan's top tourist attraction...
...three fragmented states of French Indo-China, the land of Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000) stands the best chance of survival. It is rich in rice, rubber, tobacco, teak, pepper and well-watered soil, has only a small Communist movement, and its devoutly Buddhist people are homogeneous. But among its most important assets is its young King Norodom Sihanouk...
Nevertheless, the New Handbook makes gripping reading and is full of sleep-troubling facts about hangmanship, from an account of distinguished executioners who committed suicide to the sort of wood it is best to use for gallows (teak) to the best rope for hanging a man (¾-in. rope of five strands of Italian hemp...
Beck Hall was unsurpassed for its "sanitation, ventilation, convenience of location, and general comfort." It was more popularly famous for its annual class day spreads on the front lawn, and for its Japanese prince who supposedly spent thousands of dollars for teak living room panelling. The hall's lawn was also reserved for the elite, enclosing a grass tennis court on which many stars of the time played...
...petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than face that, he takes on a risky assignment in Indo-China: to drag out a French company's teak supply just ahead...