Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon this forbidding land there will soon advance the most elaborate party of exploration the world has ever seen-the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Seventy men and 75 dogs are prepared to travel 20,000 miles (round trip), build a village in a frozen continent, roam over some 4,600,000 square miles of unknown territory for a year and a half. Almost incidental is their purpose of flying over the South Pole. No expedition ever departed with such vast objects, or with such luxurious equipment...
Looming over the 9,000-acre campus of Leland Stanford Junior University, on the side of San Juan Hill, is a grey pile of masonry suggestive of an administration building and at the same time, with its terraced roofs for outdoor living, reminiscent of the communal dwellings that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification...
...Shipping Board, denounced this as Rotterdamaging "foreign' propaganda" put forth (he said) for ulterior purposes in a foreign rate war. Even when the sales are effected-probably months hence-the Shipping Board will not at once dissolve. The Shipping Board's ultimate purpose is to build up U. S. shipping. Bids of every form must carry certain guarantees of performance by the purchasers. Any one buying the Palmetto Line, for example, must guarantee 24 round voyages per annum between South Atlantic ports and Continental Europe for five years. The Shipping Board is the logical agency to see such...
...thoroughgoing ogre, M. Le Capitaine is of thickset, pugnacious build, has quarreled with and knocked down doormen and waiters at smart Deauville Casino. The prodigious Loewenstein retinue, male & female, have been reported to receive, in addition to highest wages, a certain amount of cuffing...
...dirigible the answer to the problem of how to make trans-Atlantic air services both profitable and safe. Two nations, Germany and England, have been rushing airship construction with this purpose in mind, but while a giant German Zeppelin will be ready for flight next month, English efforts to build the R-100 at Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver linen, completing the structural ribs...