Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Henry Ford, through his Shanghai representative Thomas Lowry, put substantially this proposition to the Nationalists: "If I pay you in advance the customs dues on Ford cars to be shipped to China during the next five years, will you spend the money to build a modern motor highway between Shanghai and your new capital, Nanking?" (125 miles...
...Rubber Co. last week announced a stock melon. To stockholders it will sell a new common issue for $50 a share. Present common is around $90 a share. With the $41,480,000 derived from this sale Goodyear will pay off $7,500,000 notes due in December, will build a manufacturing unit in the South, will improve its financial position...
...Corps in preference to being a Harvard man. First, there is pride of profession. We are proud of the fact that our profession is one of the oldest and the noblest of all. We are proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must be, at all times, prepared to defend our country...
Hitherto Andorra has been almost inaccessible, tucked away remotely in the Pyrenees. But the syndicate will build motor roads, a railroad, and import the fripperies of Nice, Biarritz and the Lido...
...reverence for our immigrant population. I was born in the Port of New York and a large part of it came through that port. It is a matter of history and nobody has safely denied it, that the great immigrant population of this country did its full share to build it up, and certainly the great Scandinavian and German immigration to the Northwest was a powerful factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country...