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Show Government Builds Palatial Hotel for Girl Employees service provides ice cream, cake, candy and the like. In addition, each hotel has its own service shop, as complete as a modern mod-ern drug store, stocked with many feminine necessities and luxuries. Each lounge has its own dance floor for informal entertaining on specified evenings. So placed that its great windows look out over the garden, sheltered on three sides by the main building and its wings, the lounge of each hotel is comparable to the sun room of a high-class summer sum-mer resort. The cafeteria building will seat approximately ap-proximately 2,000 occupants at one time, and will provide the finest food available, served at the lowest possible pos-sible prices. The central recreation building, located at the edge of the civic center toward the Potomac, will offer a wide range of facilities. It will have a large dance floor where 1,000 couples may be accom- i modated and a smaller dance floor j for special parties. Many Facilities Provided For Residents' Comfort. WASHINGTON On the banks of the Potomac, the vanguard of an all-feminine all-feminine community of approximately approxi-mately 7,000 residents is getting comfortably settled in its new quarters. quar-ters. The "all-girl city" is Arlington Farms, being built by the Public Buildings administration of the Public Pub-lic Works agency, and it will be populated popu-lated by girls and women from every ev-ery state employed in the war department's de-partment's Pentagon building and Navy Department No. 2. Arlington Farms will consist of 10 large hotels, each two stories in height and each housing between 600 to 700 girls, besides a huge cafeteria building, a recreation building, administration ad-ministration building and post office. It is the largest of six housing proj-1 proj-1 ects, four under construction and two tentatively planned. The broad acres of what once was the department of agriculture's experimental ex-perimental farm have been leveled and landscaped into the site for Arlington Ar-lington Farms, complete with streets, roads, walks and all requirements re-quirements of a small city. I The 10 big hotels "that make up Arlington Farms are designed In modern style and built with a new type of structural insulating wall material ma-terial known as Cemesto, developed by the Celotex corporation. The buildings are of engineered timber construction with walls of insulating panels. These panels comprise com-prise the complete wall, including exterior and inside finish and ample insulation against heat and cold. Each unit will be complete, with Its own staff, its own management, its own house mother, its own director direc-tor of social and athletic activity. Each has private parlors, private dining rooms for parties, and small but adequate kitchens where the girls can cook when entertaining. Each has its own lounge, large and attractively furnished, and each has a range of "banquettes'" where the girls may entertain guests and where |