Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unreported; in Moscow. Though little known outside Russia, as director of such mammoth enterprises as the White Sea-Baltic Canal (opened in 1933), the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937), and the Volga-Don Canal (1952), he was the boss of the biggest projects built by forced labor since the Great Wall of China...
Proctors learned of the drive at a recent meeting with the deans. Some reportedly objected to beginning enforcement of the widely-ignored regulation so late in the year. Several freshmen have commented that their proctors were among the most lavish users of wall decorations...
...wall of his unpretentious office in infant Israel's ancient capital of Jerusalem, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion keeps a huge map. It is a map of the Moslem world; and in the midst of it the New Jersey-sized state of Israel, heavily outlined in black, looks like a jagged, tiny black arrowhead. "This is to remind me always," he says, "how small...
...Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always a challenge to the ardent collector. He plans to hang some of the newly acquired paintings in the Manhattan penthouse, others in the Paris house...
...Wall Street, Boeing Airplane Co. last week supplied a sad example of how jittery the stock market is these days, especially in reaction to offhand remarks of Administration officials. At a press conference, Secretary of Defense Wilson vaguely remarked that production of the B-52 intercontinental bomber might soon "be up for reconsideration," depending on the performance of Convair's newer, supersonic B58 Hustler bomber. Though Wilson's statement did nothing more than reflect the routine Pentagon procedure of constantly reappraising air needs, the Wall Street Journal blew it up into a long scare story headlined: PENTAGON WEIGHS...