Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor opened a relief subscription list with a donation of 5,000 yen. The Government and charity organizations distributed bread and rice, quilts and blankets. Next day, on the charred and chaotic wasteland, people began to build their rickety Japanese dwellings...
When Henry Ford examined Lawrence Sperry's Messenger Plane at the Detroit Aviation races of 1922, he pronounced it possible to build such small planes in production more cheaply than his own well-known product. Ever since, frequent rumors have credited the great manufacturer as planning the construction of an army of "flivver"' airplanes to make flying as popular as automobiling. But the Fords are wiser than to imagine that this is immediately possible. They are, indeed, in aviation, but not building airplanes, nor trying to popularize them...
...season on the ice next year are unusually bright, although the entire first string forward line of Beals, Hodder, and Austin graduate, together with Chase, strongest of the Crimson defense players. Coach Bigelow will have a nucleus of 10 letter men among the returning players around which he will build next year's team. In addition, Coach Dempsey will turn over another undefeated Freshman sextet eligible for its first year of University play...
...Ruth. The Boston baseball management says definitely for the first time that both teams will unquestionably win pennants. James James Carbunkle is heralded as the new basketball captain of Siwash, having served faithfully on the team some eight or ten years. It seems that Harvard is not going to build Finnish or Turkish baths on Soldiers Field. E. Plato Ward, an American, is accredited with having won the annual Parisian cross country race, through the Bois and back to Zellies...
Definite information regarding the firm which will build the theatre has been inaccessible. The Gordon Olympia Theatres Corporation, which has theatres all over Greater Boston, denied all rumors to the effect that they might be the firm who contemplated establishing such a theatre. "We have already got two theatres in Cambridge, and that is enough for the present", said the head of the Gordon firm when interviewed upon this question...