Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Moore said that such a roof on the Stadium press stand would be an excellent thing, but that he had not given the idea serious consideration because the velocity of the wind at the top of the Stadium is very great and to build a permanent covering would be made unpracticable by the expense. The Bowl is low and so the project there does not present the difficulties it would here. He also stated that the press stand is unsightly enough as it and a roof would probably add to its ugliness...
...sees the possibility not only of better government, but also of decreased business costs and increased profits. Although much of his program above outlined has of necessity been theoretical, practical accomplishment has also marked his endeavors, particularly in the effort to lessen the seasonal ups and downs in the building industry, which were found owing to "custom, not climate" as had previously been supposed. "For most types of construction," Mr. Hoover remarks, "it is now possible to build the year round in all parts of the United States...
...great creditor nation of the world is already bringing new and strange borrowers to Uncle Sam's loan counter in Wall Street. By an irony of fate, many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process, however, the German roads needed working capital...
...other letter men who form the nucleus around which Coach Wanamaker must build his team are E. P. Cottle '26, B. C. Cutler '26, S. K. Ferguson '26, A. D. Lindley '25, F. A. Potts '26, T. D. Sargent '26, and H. C. Trumbull...
Since I wrote that essay two very important events have happened at Harvard: First, we are to build a new School of Business Administration at the cost of five millions of dollars. Second, Professor Baker, of the 47 Workshop has resigned from Harvard's Faculty...