Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, has introduced a bill for building a new ship, bigger and better than the Shenandoah. Such a ship would cost upwards of $5,000,000. It would probably take four or five years to build. Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Jones are willing that such a ship should be built, provided the cost of building does not reduce the amount of money available for other naval purposes...
There is another proposal, which has been considered chiefly as an alternative: to build a small metalclad dirigible costing about $300,000. If the makers in Detroit are willing to give suitable guarantees, Naval officials are about ready to agree to this proposal, pointing out however that the ship would be an experiment and too small for war purposes...
...have searched the country from coast to coast and from north to south, but I was able to find only one man who has the power to build into one great, master organization the forces to fight the evils which are seeking to promulgate a theory which will destroy our Government and Christianity, and that man is Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta...
...love when you are thrilled with affection? You do not give any explanation, for you feel you cannot give positive proofs. It is the same with me; because I believe in it intensely I am willing to throw up everything. With that belief in the background one can build a new civilization, a new society, a new spiritual aristocracy...
...toward business - and life - that is commonly called the artistic attitude. What other men make a labor, he makes an art. Before he tried his hand at business he idled in Europe for two years studying art and architecture. "I never expected to become a professional painter, or to build houses," he says, but he still delights to execute an etching, judge furniture, buy rare books. His office has the air of a scholar's library and in it he has the air of a man with time for anything but business. Newspaper men who interviewed...