Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Chichester the Bishop calls To Sussex by the sea For folk to build the Church's walls, In love and loyalty...
Because they got the job of building R. M. S. Queen Mary, the thrifty Scots of John Brown's Shipyard on the Clyde have just paid a tight little dividend of one shilling (25?) per share, after years of paying none. Last week they got the contract to build what Britons called a "sister ship" to the Queen Mary until leading London newsorgans declared that...
...Chinese, Japanese and Indians stricken by war, famine, earthquake and leprosy Mr. Rockefeller gave about $3,000,000. The League of Nations' library at Geneva was built and stocked with 2,000,000 Rockefeller Jr. dollars. The Palestine Archeological Museum got $1,680,000. Half a million helped build the Shakespeare Memorial Foundation theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout...
...Kingdom of the Hellenes, dignified Sir Sydney Waterlow, whose rich relatives make stationery for King Edward VIII and British Government departments, was announced to have called upon Greek War Minister General John Metaxas and sternly inquired how things were getting on-particularly the rival British and German bids to build for Greece four destroyers. Last week General Metaxas, who has since become Premier of Greece, threw $13,500,000 of armament orders to Germany...
...effect these aims, the Act creates a Maritime Authority of five men to be appointed by the President for six years at $12,000 a year. Any shipping company seeking Government aid must agree to build its ships only in the U. S., employ only U. S. seamen, register only under the U. S. flag for 20 years, pay its executives no more than $25,000 a year. These conditions satisfied, the Authority will submit for bids the company's plans for new ships to U. S. shipyards, which in turn must agree to return to the Government profit...