Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When M. Agache found recently that several enterprising Brazilian architects had laid foundations to build skyscrapers in Rio de Janeiro like those in New York, he immediately ordered all such progress stopped...
...related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls in love...
Zuider Zee. As far as written history records, the Zuider Zee of the Netherlands was until 1395 a fresh-water lake. In that year the ocean broke through the barrier of dunes. Hence Amsterdam is a seaport. Lately, however, the Dutch have started an 8-year project to build 18 miles of main dykes 450 ft. wide, 25 ft. above Amsterdam's level to lock in the Zuider Zee. By 1952 swamps will be reclaimed, almost 1,000,000 acres of land reclaimed, and the Zuider Zee made again into an inland lake...
...been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right leg shot off during the War. And again he urged a sea-level canal-alongside the present-Canal, one to cost a billion dollars...
...takes guts and it takes loyalty to build a cooperative organization." Thus spake Aaron Sapiro, last week, to Star Reporter Peter Vischer of Exhibitors Herald & Moving Picture World. Father of many a cooperative, bitter enemy of Henry Ford, Mr. Sapiro's latest venture has been the Independent Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association, of which the purpose is to permit the owners of small cinemansions to wield a more potent influence upon the large and exclusive companies which make cinemas...