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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check construction after the dam was started. The other was that, once completed, the dam would become another Muscle Shoals which the Federal Government would lack power to operate. Therefore he felt obliged to postpone construction until Maine's Legislature should create a State Power Authority to build and operate the dam in the Federal Government's behalf. Only on Representative Brewster's assurance that he could & would prevent Republican suits and force necessary legislation through Maine's Legislature did Agent Corcoran approve PWA's decision to start work on the dam at once...
...Dictator was invited by his plan priesthood to choose between three alternatives: 1) Abandon the metropolis altogether, establishing Russia's capital elsewhere and enshrining the more picturesque parts of Moscow as a permanent "Museum City." 2) Destroy the present city of Moscow and build a modernistic capital on its site. 3) Preserve the tall-towered Kremlin and fantastic St. Basil's Cathedral, but destroy the whole encircling rabbit warren of crooked streets; enlarge the vast Red Square to twice its present size, and generally turn Moscow into a city of wide boulevards, imposing squares and grandiose parks...
...Eiffel Tower from which he is doing his best to jump because Miss Ellis, a cafe singer, has refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...
Then in a Wall Street tussle Josh Cosden lost his shirt, his homes and his company, which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. With $3,000,000 put up by his friends, the slim, personable oilman retreated to Texas, there to build another Cosden Oil and another $15,000,000 fortune...
...lace industry was the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, where 41% of the industry is now located. He it was who wrote into the Tariff Act of 1909 a 70% ad valorem duty on. imported lace. Because the U. S. could not easily build the amazingly complex lace-making machines that British manufacturers had been making for a century, the famed Rhode Island protectionist thoughtfully included a provision that machines might be imported duty free for a period of 18 months. Hundreds of machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could not run the machines...