Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave St. John Ervine's John Ferguson. This time their success was tumultuous. The play ran for 156 performances, then toured. Last fortnight the Guildsmen celebrated a prosperous tenth anniversary. In Manhattan was a subscription list of 32,000, the Guild's own handsome playhouse (to build it a $500,000 bond issue was offered and over-subscribed), and four other theatres which the Guild habitually leases. A gradual expansion policy, including tours through small towns and seasons in cities other than New York, has built up large, supplementary subscription lists: Chicago, 7,000; Boston and Philadelphia...
...contract to build the first subway on the West coast of South America was secured, last week, by Don Luis Lagar-rigue, potent Chilean engineer. For the sum of $2,200,000 he will lay 30 blocks of subway under Santiago's famed avenue, the Alameda de las Delicias...
...Baptists, whose membership verges on 10,000,000 baptized souls, achieved their greatest potency not so much by their religious beliefs alone as by founding countless welfare homes, over 90 colleges and universities. In Russia likewise, Baptists began to administer Baptist welfare, to build Baptist homes...
...Dominion of Canada there is a large corporation which last week was planning to spend some $5,000,000 on two hotels in Canada, and to build a new hotel in London, England. This corporation has also let contracts for an Atlantic liner, Empress of Britain, and a Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, the two ships to cost nearly $20,000,000. It owns some 140,000 miles of telegraph wire, distributes millions of young trees (gratis) to Canadian farmers, has settled more than 55,000 immigrants on more than 30,000,000 Canadian acres, and operates a traveling school...
...Canada there is no Interstate Commerce Commission and no recapture clause to limit a road's earnings on its investment. In addition to its extra-railroad activities, Canadian Pacific has asked the Dominion Parliament for authority to construct 1,200 miles of branch lines and expects to build some 465 miles during the present year. Expansion plans centre around the Saskatchewan district and may result in a "war" with Canadian National which has considered the Saskatchewan territory as particularly its own. Should hostilities result, the Canadian Pacific has assets of about one and a quarter billion dollars...