Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Eastman (Kodaks, philanthropy), signed a contract with the Italian Government agreeing to present $1,000,000 to build and equip a dental dispensary in Rome...
...Sweden's pulp and having assets of $75,000,000, were last week merged by the formation of a holding company to be controlled by Kreuger & Toll (financial company of the Swedish match trust). They will be given a unified selling agency and the holding company will build a new sulphate pulp factory...
Last fall Her Royal Highness journeyed into chill Ireland to the famed Belfast shipyards of Harland & Wolff especially to honor the White Star Line. She understood that they were going to build the largest ocean liner in the world, the gargantuan Oceanic of 60,000 tons. Graciously and with appropriate pomp Princess Mary inaugurated work on the Oceanic's 1,000-ft. backbone, or keel...
...than the 50,000-ton Bremen, vexed White Star officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star Line not only the largest but the fastest liner in the world...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...