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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welded joints in structural steel are much stronger than riveted joints. The advancement in electric welding is making possible the use of the process on a large as well as a small scale. Only a few further steps in this advancement are needed before it will be practicable to build rivetless skyscrapers, thereby silencing the nerve-racking noise of the air hammer...
Under its terms Mr. Firestone's engineers will explore Liberia, choose 1,000,000 acres of land best suited to his purposes. The land will be cleared and rubber trees will be planted. Meanwhile a U. S. firm has been engaged to build a breakwater at Monrovia, and give Liberia its first harbor. The Firestone Plantations Co. will build roads, houses and improve sanitary conditions. Some 300,000 natives who never before had any employment, except carrying great baskets on their heads, will be hired. A force of Americans will be sent over to superintend the job; food, household furniture...
...mind of the student must be led, and the lead must be attractive. If the classroom, the lecture, and the conference have not the vigor of the world of sport, one cannot condemn youth for choosing the latter. The educator who would build character, build the wholeness which has been an ideal ever since the Greeks first demonstrated it, must not content himself with thwarting natural tendencies. He must divert those tendencies into the most effective channels...
...Hooker, Arthur W. Page, Mark Sullivan, Charles D. Walcott, Irwin Kirkwood, Frederick C. Hicks, Hermann Hagedorn, were present at the meeting of the committee. The distinction was the choosing of Architect Pope's design for the proposed Roosevelt Memorial. The Association has appropriated $1,000,000 to build it. The design has yet to be approved by Congress...
...Washington Memorial, austere bayonet of white Maryland marble, which took 36 sporadic years to build (1848-1884); the site for which was chosen by Washington himself; which cost $1,300,000; which was designed by Robert Mills, and whose stones, given by separate states, bear each its privy inscription ("All that live must...