Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill by Senator Willis exempting from taxes income derived from the sale of merchant ships, when such income is used to build new tonnage; sent it to the House; received it back, rejected, with a "respectful" note that it contravened the House's exclusive power to originate revenue laws...
...Build a new bowl within the miles of Boston in some naturally drained and topographically perfect piece of land where it can be supported by solid earth...
...Build it so that it can be enlarged...
...referring to the silver splinters of sky scrapers in Manhattan and elsewhere, were soon disabused. Architect Cram, apostle of the gothic, has only an academic interest in these astonishing and often beautiful towers. He disapproved of them on principle but said that he "would like to try to build one." Himself a great builder of churches, he referred to U. S. religious monuments...
...Hill 240 in the Argonne, compelled the surrender of 132 Germans and 37 machine guns. Having seen the world, he returned to his mountains, decided the mountaineers needed education, established the "York Foundation" to educate mountain children. Two years ago he started an industrial school in a single frame building. Ninety students came, crowded it, convinced Hero York he needed $30,000 to build two new brick buildings. Yachtsman Carl G. Fisher gave him $10,000. Last week he came to New York to raise the rest, mingled unrecognized with guests in the lobby of the Hotel Astor. Said...