Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged to break up furniture and build fires on top of their ranges. I was in the hotel from Tuesday night until Thursday morning when I was able to leave in a motor boat after the flood had begun to subside. Water appeared to be plentiful at all times-not only out in the streets where...
Your account of the arrival of Rev. Francis Thomay in Chicago (TIME, March 23) was TIME-worthy, but the statement that ''Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean Rite church in the U. S." may be subject to qualification...
...terms of the White Paper Germany was not to erect fortifications in the Rhineland. Last week news that Adolf Hitler had ordered the most intensive German efforts to build fortifications in the Rhineland as fast as possible made the interest of His Majesty's Government in the British White Paper diminish even further. To find out exactly where the British stood a French delegate to the League Council in London, famed trial Lawyer Joseph Paul-Boncour, visited Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, then flew to Paris. Said he: "The only answer I received was a movement of the head-neither...
...from his banker he could borrow possibly 75%. The Reserve Board took great pains to confine its bank margin rules solely to speculative borrowing. If his bank will accommodate him, a man can still pledge his stocks for, say, 70% of their value to buy a farm or build a house. Said the Board: "The regulation does not restrict the right of a bank to extend credit, whether on securities or otherwise, for any commercial, agricultural or industrial purpose or for any other purpose except the purchasing or carrying of stocks registered on a national securities exchange...
From the original Koppers process to its present $227,000,000 form, Eastern Gas & Fuel expanded with curious logic. At first the coke plants were constructed for other companies but as soon as Koppers Co. started to build them for itself, it had to find an outlet for the gas. Though most Koppers units sell gas to local utilities, the gas companies serving Boston and its suburbs were bought outright. To use some of the coke it has a blast furnace near Boston. To insure supplies of coal West Virginia mines were acquired. To keep the mines operating efficiently, coal...