Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cabin boats have followed Merchant Filene's general plan to their owner's profit. By reducing winter fares, as Mr. Filene also suggested, the lines have gained year-round traffic. Last week the Cosulich Line, operating between New York and Adriatic ports, announced that it would build eight new ships for Filene-plan service. Six will be of 10,000 gross tons, two of 40,000 gross tons. Fares on at least the smaller six will be $125 from Manhattan to Trieste. California. At Newport News the Panama Pacific Line's new California, largest commercial ship ever...
...expansion requires money, which might be raised by sale of Crosse & Blackwell stock. To do that, company directors last week asked their stockholders' permission. Some stockholders shouted "absolute robbery"; others "gross injustice." A majority, however, approved the plan. As soon as the company sells its stock it will build its U.S. factories...
...been found, though, in the legislative check up on the allegations of Admiral Magruder, that even if the United States were to build six or seven submarines a year for the next five years, this would be only "a fleet appropriate to out needs." In spite of the recent completion of the twin airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the most modern vessels of their kind in the world, the United States is all of 69,000 tons behind the allotment of the disarmament conference...
...only a few centers. Mountains and great distances split the people into separate units. Differences in the spoken language, southern and northern antipathies, and provincial jealousies augment this division. There are practically no news papers, and only ten per cent of the populace can read. It is impossible to build a national feeling or a public opinion with no tools...
...Sears, Roebuck 32,500, Montgomery Ward 14,000. Reasons: Sears, Roebuck expects to do at least $290,000,000 business this year, Montgomery Ward $200,000,000. A corollary reason in Sears, Roebuck's case: During the week its President Charles Morgan Kittle announced that the firm would build a $5,000,000 mail order house and retail store in Boston, with a retail store in Cambridge. Construction of another mail order distributing house in Minneapolis will be completed in March. Thus Sears, Roebuck will have distributing plants in Atlanta Los Angeles...