Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with 80 Chinese passengers and a crew of four Americans crashed near Hangchow, killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across the runways in front of whirring propellers, hoping that the blades would chew up the evil spirits which they believed were following them. Some propellers missed the shadows but devoured the substance. But loss of life was amazingly small in proportion to the magnitude of the undertaking. Army airmen again had reason...
...tight wartime controls on labor, prices, transport, building. Tories Gad-sirred that such stuff would leave Parliament "nothing more than a Reichstag." At home recovering from a sore throat, Winston Churchill croaked of "drastic departures from our . . . way of life. . . ." The bright beacon on Big Ben's tower burned late that night, telling home-going Britons that their Parliament was still at work. Members stoked themselves with snacks and drinks. After midnight came the inevitable Labor victory: 306 votes...
...oasis in a desert community," will be built around an open court, which wall be full of green vegetation, and floodlighted at night. The congregation will be able to look at the oasis through a big glass window at the head of the chancel. A cube-shaped "tower" will house machinery tc keep parishioners cool...
...proposed Catholic Church (not yet sold to any parish) would be semicircular, with tiered seats like an amphitheater. Its tower would be two high walls intersecting at right angles to recall "the mission to go forth and preach the Gospel to the four corners of the earth...
...lake's center, directly beneath the bomb's exploding point, is a crater of bare earth about 15 ft. deep and 300 ft. across. Scientists told newsmen the earth here was pushed downward ten feet by the explosion's force. Stumps of the four reinforced-concrete tower pillars that supported the bomb still stand in the crater, flaked and twisted. The rest of the tower has vanished into vapor...