Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glides over U. S. cities, rechristened the Los Angeles. Since she nosed out of Friedrichshafen* to fly the Atlantic, pickings have been lean for zeppelin workers on Lake Constance. Last winter Dr. Hugo Eckener, president of the Zeppelin plant, toured Germany in an effort to raise funds to build a zeppelin that should fly across the Pole-failed. What to do? Must the great zeppelin plant break up after holding together heroically during the eight years since...
...this system, the War Department expects to build up a reserve corps of trained executives familiar with military methods. The cost of sending a man through two years of college will be no greater than the upkeep of a regular army private over a similar period...
...true when the question carries various implications as referendum questions so often do... Small wonder it is that under such conditions the voice of the people turns out to be a babel of discordance like unto that which was heard on the plain of Shinar when men sought to build a city whose tower should spike...
...Cleveland councilmen beamed. They had learned (unofficially through the Cleveland Press) that the Equitable Trust Co. of Manhattan with the concurrence of the Rockefellers might ask them for a franchise to build a $40,000,000 subway which eventually will go to the municipality free of cost. One Peter Witt, obstructionist, thinks the private enterprise "perfectly silly," insists the city should build the urgently needed tubes itself, after a plan which he first suggested three years ago but which has remained ignored...
...Chicago councilmen mused over the offer of Investment Dealer Frederick J. Lisman and Lawyer John Maynard Harlan,* who represent much Chicago and Manhattan money, to spend (eventually) $300,000,000 on the reorganization of Chicago transportation: rip out the Loop elevated structures, build subways, refurbish surface lines. Samuel Insull (public utilities) recently made a similar offer. As in his case, the musing councilmen did nothing about the newer offer...