CHANGE OF WORK
Not Tobacco, But Books (N.Z P. A .-Reuter—Copyright) FLORENCE, Nov. 10. Cigarette factories in Tuscany switched yesterday from drying tobacco to drying out the sodden leaves of thousands of documents damaged when floodwaters surged through the cellars of Florence’s libraries and art galleries. Eleven monks exchanged their robes for mechanics’ overalls to help grope through the mud and slime in the cellars of the national library for heaps of waterlogged documents, which were taken away by the lorryload to be dried out.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31215, 12 November 1966, Page 23
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85CHANGE OF WORK Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31215, 12 November 1966, Page 23
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