National Affairs: A Better White House

The first thorough renovation that the White House has received since before the war is now under way. The entire heating plant is being torn out, and hereafter the White House will be heated from the furnaces of the State, War and Navy building next door. The renovation is expected to take ten weeks—the approximate duration of the President's absence.

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