Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in Manhattan, preliminaries to next summer's races started to proceed from Stage One to Stage Two when Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, who helped underwrite and skippered the successful Cup defender in 1934, announced that, instead of heading a syndicate to finance the 1937 defender, he would build one all by himself. The new boat will cost some $400,000. She will be the first individually owned defender in 50 years. Because her designer, W. Starling Burgess, works for the Bath (Me.) Iron Works she will be built there instead of at Herreshoff's Bristol...
...darkness, one An old man bearded, his old eyes red with weeping, A peasant, with hard hands, "Come now," he said, And see the Road, for which our people die. Twelve miles of road we've made, a little only, Westward winding. Of human blood and stone We build; and in a thousand years will come Beyond the hills...
Since Harry Miller, who built nearly all the first-string racing cars in this country, stopped building racing cars two or three years ago, the waves of nationalism that have swept over Italy and Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They...
...Treasury from the employer. Example: A factory superintendent 40 years old makes $3,000 per year; his annual tax to begin with will be $30 (1% of $3,000); the factory management must match his $30 with another $30 and the $60 will be turned into the Treasury to build up the Old-Age Pension Fund; at 65 the factory superintendent may retire to draw a maximum of $62.50 each month from the Government. Though the Federal Social Security Board in Washington has been working quietly for months with plans to inaugurate this vast pension scheme in 1937, few wage...
...These are the Smithsonian's private finances. Although last week's report complained again & again of insufficient Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were $716,000, up $61,000 from the preceding year. In addition, PWA allotted $680,000 to build a pachyderm house, an addition to the bird house and a house for small mammals for the zoo in Rock Creek Park...