Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming that the Crown's masterly build-up of circumstantial evidence revealed the facts, what happened last September was as follows...
...Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed his shiny black pillbox hat, arrived in Manhattan last August wearing the dark mufti of a priest. In Chicago last week Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean Rite church...
Yesterday another high court put its foot in it. Now York's Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the State Housing law. From now on cities are permitted to condemn tenements owned by private capitalists, pay for them according to the judgment of their own appraisers, and build their own tax-free housing projects in their stead...
...raise four new battalions of British infantry, multiply the present Army's effectiveness several times by costly mechanization, modernize field artillery and anti-aircraft defense. It would increase the Royal Air Force from 1,750 to 2,150 planes, with more than a hint of going on to build up as fast as possible the world's most powerful air force...
Under its seventh president, Alexander Johnston Cassatt, the Pennsylvania pushed eastward into New York. In 1900 the Pennsylvania secured control of the Long Island Railroad. In 1901 it got permission from New York City to build tunnels under the Hudson and a great terminal on Seventh Avenue. Mr. Cassatt died in 1906, was succeeded by James McCrea, under whom the tunnels were, completed (1910) and the Pennsylvania Station was formally dedicated. Mr. McCrea also completed the East River tunnels and began work on the Hell Gate Bridge, which links the Pennsylvania to the New York, New Haven & Hartford and makes...