Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incentive behind Mr. Ford's determination to build and operate in England is undoubtedly that he will have there no competitors in manu- factoring cheap cars. The cheapest British car costs $575; British makers are so unaccustomed to standardization of a few models only, that they manufacture over 300 models. Daimler alone has 5f models...
...hundred years ago, after much bickering as to size and price, and a proper or improper reprimanding of the President for laxity in expounding the holy Scriptures, the Board of Overseers voted to build Massachusetts Hall...
...Promised to build new huts for shepherds...
...Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, is at least realizing what is self-evident to every visitor from Toledo and Akron: that the structure which now houses the "greatest opera company in the world" is woefully inadequate- a small, dingy, undistinguished, badly-located building. Otto H. Kahn, khan of music-patrons, said as much. "The Metropolitan is antiquated. It has no room for the thousands who cannot pay high prices of admission. It is in a congested district of the city. We should have a modern, more beautiful, more commodious structure, located in an other section. . . . Will...
...famed banker and builder; on the liner Minnewaska, of heart disease. She was renowned for her philanthropic activities. With her husband she gave $4,000,000 for the formation of the Heckscher Foundation to support the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and to build the "Home for Happiness" on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...