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Excerpt from Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years, 1939 Men build temples to the things they love. During the 10 years of post-war boom the finest buildings in this country were being constructed to serve business and commercial interests. Today, on the other hand, we are watching structures being erected everywhere to fit the needs of humanity in general. Hospitals are being built, floods are being controlled, new and humane prisons and asylums are replacing the old which-were intended merely as places of confinement and not education, Slums are being cleaned up, and in all building, as in town planning...