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Zeal Construction: Your ride to town is a rainbow ride, utterly different from the airport-to-capital ride anywhere else in Europe. You see no slums, and indeed these do not exist in Lisbon, though the population approaches one million, to anything like the degree of squalor that we know in our large cities, partly because the present government has pushed with tireless zeal construction the construction of new, low-rent apartment houses for workers. You won't see slums but you will see street after street of chromatic houses, pale yellow, pink, light green, blue, this last color being evident also in the glazed Tile work (azulejos) which presently comes to seem almost the cognizance of Portugal.
The cover was an in dustrial photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of th< construction of a great dam near Fort Peck, Montana, k the style for which, as a photographer for Fortune, she was noted. The opening picture story, however, focused not on the construction, but on the life of the builders oi the dam and their families in temporary cities in the desert. It was not what the editors had assigned, and they wrote, by way of introduction:
What the Editors expected—for use in some later issue-were construction pictures as only Bourke-White can take them. What the Editors got was a human document of frontier life which, to them at least, was a revelation.
The requirements of the Rules apply to steel vessels of all welded construction. Riveted construction, where used, is to comply with the applicable parts dealing with riveting in the 1969 edition of the Rules. |
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