Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a better military force would really make a better country. I would be the last to disparage the military art. It is an honorable and patriotic calling of the highest rank. But I can see no merit in any unnecessary expenditure of money to hire men to build fleets and carry muskets when international relations and agreements permit the turning of such resources into the making of good roads, the building of better homes, the promotion of education, and all the other arts of peace which minister to the advancement of human welfare...
...Loree resurrected the plan last year, American railroad men wondered whether he did it in all seriousness, or merely to bedevil the "Big Four" which had more or less ignored him. Mr. Loree was apparently quite in earnest, however, and applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to build the new line...
...Senators McKinley and Curtis called at the White House and recommended that the TJ. S. Shipping Board should be abolished and its functions transferred to the Department of Commerce. On the same day Commissioner Benson of the Board issued a report advocating that the Government build two 30,000-ton passenger liners for service with the Leviathan and lay out an annual program for 20,000 cargo tons. Next day Secretary Hoover let it be known that he did not care to have the Shipping
...these are minor enterprises compared with the proposed subway, which will cost 160 millions and be the largest system of its type in Europe. About 50,000 men will be employed for three years in its construction. To build and operate this freight subway, the "London Underground Goods Railways" has already been organized by Britons and Americans; required capital will be raised in London and New York...
...found, however, that the cage could not be built there. At the desired spot the gravel covering the ground is 25 feet deep, making it impractical to build a large structure on it. There was also considerable opposition to putting the cage so far from the Locker Building...