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Show 75,000 WORKERS Building U.N. Home Huqe Task The 65 million-dollar Job of constructing con-structing the United Nations' world capital along the East river in New York City will benefit more than 75.000 workers during the next three years, headquarters planning officials offi-cials have predicted. Chief architects of the future skyscraper sky-scraper city of glass and marble estimated thai a total of 25.000 persons per-sons eventually would be employed In construction and other direct wnrk upon the actual site. An additional 50.000 workers are expected to contribute Indirectly In production of materials and in other outside labor. Labor expense will account for 42 million of the total 65 million dollar construction cost. Currently, the more than 50 administrative, ad-ministrative, architectural and en-gineerlng en-gineerlng members of the headquarters head-quarters planning staff are more or less marking time while they watt from day to day for some word on how the skyscraper project is to be financed. A sledge-hammer detail of 100 workers already has demolished about 40 per cent of the old daughter daugh-ter houses and garages now occupying occupy-ing the area, but no large scale construction con-struction can begin until the general gen-eral assembly gives the go-ahead signal And that signal will not be forthcoming forth-coming until a financing program, almost certainly to be based on a big United States loan, has been arranged. In the meantime, considerable work is being done on refinement of j detailed designs, Improvement of a j master system for circulating peo- pie and vehicular traffic through the International zone and on prellml- j nary surveys regarding interior design de-sign and furnishings. Officials say U. N. may decide to follow the example set by the League of Nations and accept furnishings fur-nishings from each member country, coun-try, each nation contributing product for which it is famous-like rugs from Persia and tapestries from Belgium. |