Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping down from their tops...
...Joseph Paul-Boncour, was approved by Mr. Hoover as suggestive of a means of compromise between Great Britain and the U. S. in the cruiser dispute. Briefly this idea as unfolded to the Committee last year is that under a disarmament pact giving Great Britain the right to build a certain tonnage of destroyers, she might transfer a portion of this allowance out of the destroyer class and build cruisers under it instead...
Packing a dingy theatre by putting up the sign FOR MEN ONLY or FOR WOMEN ONLY is an old trick. Last week a new change was rung when the Mayor of Santiago signed a decree authorizing the expenditure of public money to build a theatre FOR CHILDREN ONLY...
...decision to erect the steel stands ends a problem which has been current for two years since the temporary wooden structures were condemned by the Building Commission. Since then three alternatives have been open to the Athletic authorities, namely: to fill in the open end with concrete stands; to erect temporary steel structures; and to build permanent steel stands...
...twisted across his face and he fell dead from a heart attack. His death was unforeseen, but many of his friends believed that his health had been gravely impaired during the investigation of alleged construction faults in Nebraska's new $9,000,000 state capitol at Lincoln. That building, the friends claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear it criticized was torture to him. And, in Nebraska not only had he faced charges of ineptitude and duplicity, but, unlike the commission which had picked the bold Goodhue design from...