Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulkhead a Kaalawai Beach cove into a private swimming pool near her proposed $500,000 home. Declared the Board: "This question of great wealth being used for private ends is contrary to the public good." Annoyed, Mrs. Cromwell threatened to abandon her Hawaiian property, build her home near Palm Beach, Fla., instead...
Though streamlined, the new cars are so designed that they can be used along with old-style cars. As more of the new type roll onto the rails, railroads will be able gradually to build up complete streamlined trains. To demonstrate this idea. Pullman will send its new unit all over the U. S. attached for a week at a time to crack non-streamline trains, of which the Century was first...
...Investment Co., which manages the family fortune, but also the family's large Stoddard Lumber Co., First Security Corp. which owns 26 banks in Utah and Idaho, one in Wyoming, Sego Milk Products (now a subsidiary of Pet), Utah Construction Co. (one of Six Companies, Inc. which helped build Boulder Dam) and several lesser concerns...
Alphabet Aid. To help farmers in this crisis nearly the whole alphabet of the New Deal will go into the field. WPA will pay an average of $40 to over 100,000 relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children...
...great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled Presbyterian church, but with all his talent for vigorous organization he could not fill it. To build from the ground up he established the East Northfield schools and conferences, the Moody Bible Institute which still flourishes in Chicago, keeps a radio soul-saving service going all day long. Though the British and U. S. Press often accused Moody & Sankey of personally profiting by their work, most of the hymn...