Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet wide, leading from Nanking to Dr. Sun's new mausoleum. Therefore, China's most exalted morticians and highway contractors rested last week from their labors. Everything was in readiness for the grand three-day second funeral of China's first president, Dr. Sun. To build this impressive approach, eight contractors were allotted mile sec tions each. Soldiers were put to work as laborers. The eight contractors ruthlessly tore down peasants' houses, appropriated land. Intent on honoring simple democratic Dr. Sun, they paid little attention to each other. When the eight single miles of road were...
...there you are. The proceeds to go at once to the creditor's coffers. If anyone suggested that America advance a few 109 dollars in the form of a loan to Germany, in order to enable her to pay off England and France so they can build a few more cruisers and submarines, to be used in an Anglo-French entente against the U. S. he'd be put on the rack...
...mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest in the U. S. devoted exclusively to the manufacture of airplanes. His transport systems are the largest in the world. Systems and factories were recently bought...
Last week he announced another experiment-to try to time the speed of light still more accurately. He will build a pipeline one mile long and three feet in diameter. From it he will exhaust the air, leaving a vacuum. In a vacuum it will not be necessary to make corrections for temperature, pressure and moisture, as it was in the open air. Once more he will set up his mirrors, allow a beam of light to make five round trips through the pipe and time it for the ten-mile trip...
Perhaps Builder Lindenthal will be able to solve all his problems, and perhaps the City of New York will build his bridge if the B. & O. does not. But by 1930 the North River Bridge Co. will have been in existence for 40 years. And Builder Lindenthal will be 79 years...