Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East. Britian's Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, signed a five-year trade agreement in Moscow. Britain's purchases from the Soviet Union (chiefly timber, grain, furs) should now rise by a third over last year's $160 million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants...
...Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants to buy-a bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop...
...First Church of Christ Scientist in Berkeley, built to Maybeck's design in 1910, today ranks as a historical masterpiece. Within, it is a massive square room, spanned by two colossal, diagonal, arched timber beams. Outside, broad overhanging eaves, reminiscent of a Japanese temple, project over glass screen walls decorated with exuberant Gothic motifs. It might have proved a nightmare of clashing styles. But Maybeck took his cue from his materials and kept his eye on the site. As a result, the church appears to float from the surrounding hedges, ornamented by its own shadows and highlights and finished...
...east slope of Catoctin Mountain are surrounded by a 12-ft. barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue golf bag, while not far away is a putting green with five pitching tees ranging from...
...highly specialized country depending mainly on exports of fish and timber to balance its foreign trade, Finland is peculiarly susceptible to economic pressure from the Soviet Union, for Russia supplies more than half the Finnish foreign markets, and holds many of their foreign loans. The effects that this pressure can have became graphically clear last fall...