Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skeel in the dilapidated racing airplanes during last October's are meet. "This was caused by an arrangement between the Navy and Army that the navy should take the races one year and the Army should take them the next year, thereby equalizing propaganda, not service. Instead of building new airplanes, our men were given the old crates to fly at those terrific speeds. Of course they came to pieces, as they were designed for only one race two years before. This was done in spite of the fact that we had sufficient money to build new ships according...
...given for the Communist order was the growing ineffectiveness of the Communist movement in Germany. Ernst Thaelmann, former dockyard worker, was named in her place. He is a more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight to the North Pole. He announced that Roald Amundsen would not be invited to go along, since the German people still resent Amundsen's bitter anti-German spirit during...
Somewhere inside the great red sandstone walls, in one of the spacious old-fashioned chambers of the Waldorf-Astoria (in Manhattan) sat a tremendous man. Swarthy he was, and six feet tall, 230 pounds over all. Near him stood a man lighter in build but equally dark in cast of countenance, his interpreter...
...taken an option on 1,000 acres of land on Lake Leman about six miles from Geneva. There it had been hoped to build a palace worthy of the Leauge of Nations with a magnificent watergate in memory of all the soldiers who were killed in the war. When it became apparent that the U.S would not enter the Leauge, the option had been allowed to elapse and the project was forgotten...
...life to its completion. It would cost over 75 millions, he figures. It would take 5,000 workmen five years. The sea walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains of rock would have to be dropped in the tideways, some of which are 200 feet deep...