Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands to be acquired in tracts greater than 2,500 acres, the Moros grateful for self-government, would surely be more farsighted and generous. They would not shy as do the Filipinos at the thought of "exploitation...
...emergency solution lay in the formation of a "Sacred Union Cabinet* in which outstanding members of opposed parties should bury their differences to save the franc. M. Briand took a bold step, resigned, though still supported by a majority in the Chamber, promptly set about to build a Sacred Union Cabinet at the pre-arranged request of President Doumergue...
...iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin W. Krech, chairman of the Western Pacific Board under the Equitable, resigned in favor of T. M. Schumacher, an associate of Mr. James...
Opposite the Widener Library it is now proposed to build a new chapel as a memorial to Harvard's dead in the great way. Plans for this chapel, not definite plans it seems, have been published. These show a curious arrangement. A Gorgian type of main body is used that is an oblong with round-topped windows on each side, and as both ends, under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle...
...made a "public utility," hence freed from all taxes; Panama is to provide sanitary and police protection at the company's expense (much of the area has never even been explored); the company has permission to use streams for water power, to install telegraph, telephone and railway lines, build roads, aqueducts and power lines; the company must in turn undertake certain public improvements- building roads, bridges, harbors, etc.; the company will further pay the government as royalty 2% of the gross profits; any dispute arising between the concessionaire and Panama is to be settled by arbitration; diplomatic intervention...