Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brides put their first biscuits together we sure could build some fine roads." "America's chewing gum bill in the past year amounted to over $9,000,000, exclusive of the cost of gasoline necessary to remove it from trousers." "A Dumb Dora from South Hoboken wants to know if a man who plays the piano by ear is an acrobat."-ED. "No Predicament...
Then began the Schwab-Gary tussle. The Judge wanted to operate the whole organization through an oligarchy, an executive committee. President Schwab wanted sole control. He objected to hearing an influential director ordering him to build a steel plant at Chicago, when he, the direct operator, needed a plant at Pittsburgh. The Judge was further irritated by President Schwab's behavior at Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes...
...play football. But then Claxton hasn't been having such good teams recently. And I can walk beneath the trees with the girl friend almost as well as Grange. Of course he has played around with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee is, will he or she please let me know? I'm tired...
...desert rat prepares and does his little best, with thorns and cactus. If he were President of the United States, he would build flying machines and make this nation independent of the flying rattlesnakes of Europe and Asia...
President Robert Lieber of First National Pictures decided three months ago to build a cinema "city" for his productions at Burbank, Calif., in a mountain cranny which sprawling Los Angeles has not yet been able to annex...