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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Workmen have reinforced foundations and some of the bearing walls that had deteriorated from two generations of occupancy, so that the job, according to Durant, "is pretty well cleaned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Claverly Face-Lifting Nears Final Touches | 11/4/1947 | See Source »

...branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Encirclement | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Everyday Sights. Pool buyers long ago learned that the first cost of a swimming pool is only a start; there is also a fat annual fee for maintenance. In Southern California, a lot of the upkeep goes to an Ilsley maintenance subsidiary which employs 60-odd workmen, grosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: The People's Pool | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...name picked up from the Tartars. Later, two even larger walls were built-one of white stone (which gave its lame to Bely Gorod, or White Town, where the Czar's servants lived) and a wooden wall (which gave its name to Zemlyanoi Gorod, Wooden Town, for workmen and soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Third Rome | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Last week, as workmen installed air conditioning and loudspeakers in the two Louisville libraries, University phones were jammed with "Neighborhood" applicants. Said tall, easygoing John Taylor: "There is no question of the demand." Said the Louisville Courier-Journal: "There is no question of the . . . need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Supply & Demand | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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