Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inventor Nikola Tesla drew plans for a helicopter that would fly straight up from earth until safely high and then would cock over to fly like any other plane. Those plans he registered last week at the U.S. patent office, commenting that he would build no such helicopters himself but that they would work. His cocksureness arose from the fact that the multitude of his previous inventions had worked (TIME, July...
...bond offering, in 1886, when Paris was the money-lending centre of the world. Last week it was the Protestant house of Halsey, Stuart† & Co., of Chicago and New York, who announced a forthcoming issue of $1,500,000 of 5% Vatican bonds whose proceeds of sale will build new buildings for the College of the Propaganda of the Faith on a site of three acres on the Giancialo in Rome. His Holiness Pope Pius XI has shown his particular interest in this novel piece of financing by summoning Cardinal Mundelein and the Right Rev. Mgr. B. J. Shell...
...build a worthy nation without faith in God is impossible. I welcome you tonight, therefore, not only as friends, but as co-workers in an enterprise which seems to me of vital importance to the future of our country-the hastening of the day when it can no longer be said that in Washington, the capital of the United States, there is no adequate expression of the religious faith of the people...
...adoption of the resolution to build a war memorial chapel culminates a movement for a University memorial which began early in the World War, as soon as the deaths of Harvard men were reported. It will require the demolition of the present chapel, but inside the new memorial there will be a small chapel which will be called Appleton Chapel...
...Resolved that the said sum, with any future additions, shall be used to build a chapel, and that a committee, to consist of representatives of the Corporation and of the committee of the alumni in charge of collecting the subscriptions, prepare plans for the same