Word: builded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the railroads can save the co-feature, "Let Freedom Ring," for Nelson Eddy and Crew can't even reach the standards that put over "Dodge City" and "Union Pacific." Nelson Eddy is given a fine build up as the tough hombre who K. O.'s Victor McLaglen and drinks every member of the graduating class of the Harvard Law School under the table with case...
...still gloomily sitting out Roosevelt, has meanwhile refunded $65,000,000 worth of debt to save half a million a year by lower interest rates. Saving every cent he could, getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...
...fill rush orders from Japan and Russia, United bought a creaky mill at Wooster, Ohio at a bargain price, was all set to abandon it this year when Shibaura Engineering Co., Japan's largest electrical manufacturer, decided to build a rolling mill machinery subsidiary. Hard-headed George Ladd promptly sold them the Wooster mill and last week he announced that it was being shipped, lock, stock & barrel from Wooster to Yokohama, Japan where it will be operated by Shibaura-United, capitalized at 16,000,000 yen ($4,000,000) and 49% owned by United...
...logical thing is to reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would...
...those parts of the play, however, where the players let down their hair and threw themselves into their parts, they packed a real punch. The third act was superb; the pace was fast; and the build-up of the first two acts gave the final one added force...