Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poling did not care for liquor. He cared for it still less in 1912 when he ran for the Governorship of Ohio on a Prohibition ticket. Had he been elected he could not have taken office because he was too young (28). But he, a young zealot with the build of a lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship with Chain Storeman James Cash Penney, friend of Prohibition...
...next large Stone & Webster contract was a second job for Paperman Warren, to build a power plant that would carry 1,000 h.p. for seven miles at 1,000 volts. Such a plant seemed then a great project, though since that time Stone & Webster have constructed such power plants as that of Southern California Edison, which carries 250,000 h.p. for 250 miles at 250,000 volts...
Last week Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison signed contracts with five aviation companies to build 162 U. S. Army airplanes for $5,000,000. When completed as part of the Army's five-year air expansion program, these planes will constitute the largest unit ever added to the U. S. airfleet in peacetime...
...Mario Chamlee, mechanically inclined, examined garages as well as houses, found what he wanted in Highland Park. Friends heard he was going to build himself an airplane. Marouf will be repeated at Ravinia for Tenor Chamlee who recently scored a successful Paris debut in that opera. Another Highland Parker is Mme. Yvonne Gall, fresh from Paris. She will be seen and heard in Paul Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bhie...
...steel and automobile manufacturers of Turin and Milan were among the earliest and most enthusiastic backers of Fascism. Last week the Fascist Party, grown great under Benito Mussolini, was able to do a return favor for the manufacturers, and at the same time carry on its campaign to build up Italy's commercial power...