Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre is essentially a cathedral of the spirit" and whatever one's opinion of these postulates may be, it must be admitted that they are noble concepts. In predicating his "Winterset" upon these premises Mr. Anderson has set himself a task of heroic proportions. He has attempted to build a play of fundamentally modern themes and modern personages upon the foundation of epic structure and to articulate these characters through the trying medium of verse. To an extent he has succeeded and "Winterset" is clearly among the most compelling and powerful dramatic studies of the season...
Even more spectacular has been the jump in shares of British shipyards, recently down & out, now all set to build warboats. The disgusted Daily Herald, after first severely warning its Labor readers that they will probably lose their shirts if they jump into the market now, tantalizingly explained that a nest egg of $2,500 invested one year ago in three ship-building and two aircraft stocks would today have become a tidy little fortune...
...projected Rockefeller library that decision to build it forced the League of Nations far out into Geneva's inconvenient suburbs. The town's jangling "Toonerville Trolley" line was to have been extended out to the $10,000,000 League Palace, but last week tight-fisted Geneva burghers snorted: "The municipality has no funds for such a purpose...
...heroism of its construction crews. On three occasions long sections were destroyed by hurricanes. When a hurricane approached, floating equipment was scuttled to preserve it, and then raised after the wind and seas abated. It took $27,985,000, hundreds of lives and nearly eight exasperating years to build the Key West Extension...
...other business, ruined Federal plans for making the city a winter resort. It is estimated that one-half the population will have to be moved when WPA projects cease. There is vague talk that the State of Florida might take over the old right-of- way, use it to build a continuous automobile road down the Keys. Unless it does so, Key West, the last jewel inserted in the Flagler crown of empire, is liable to become a ghost city, reverting to sand...