Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Union cannot endure half Communist and half Capitalist. ... I know Secretary Ickes and he is truly an admirable, energetic man. ... He sees ... an opportunity to promote the recovery of business by stimulating the heavy industries . . . producing building materials. ... He has gathered around him a group of admirable, clean-thinking, but not clear-thinking assistants, and they have concluded that they must . . . promote Recovery by clearing the slums and rebuilding them with modern apartment houses. . . . That hits you taxpayers right on the proboscis. . . . Secretary Ickes has the very good excuse that private lenders will not lend, and therefore private builders...
...Island. On Gravesend Bay, where ocean liners, after passing through The Narrows, almost cross his front yard, he owns 13 acres of bona fide land, some 38 acres beneath the sludgy waters of the Bay. What Joe Day wanted above all else was $5,500,000 in cash to build apartments on his land...
...Washington again last week, Joe Day spread his plans wide open to the world: Brooklyn Beach Gardena Apartments, Inc., 2,000 feet of water frontage on the Bay, 5,000 rooms, fireproof construction, automatic elevators, incinerators, radio outlets, 2,500 men to build them, 7,500 others to make the materials required. "This project will pay all taxes, city, State and Federal. All experts in consultation agreed that the property is one of the finest, not only in New York but in the country...
Castles & Teeth. IlDuce. who will open the Stresa Conference in the tall-terraced, fairylike palace on Lago Maggiore where Napoleon dallied for some months with Josephine, sternly warned his people to expect little from the Great Powers' conference. "You must," the Dictator told Italians, "build no castles of illusion...
...plan is to "de-emphasize" sport, particularly in its commercial aspects, yet this can hardly be done if "gates" are to be the source for the endowment. Secondly, the whole problem arises from lack of income, and to suppose that it can be overcome by using surplus to build up a capital is almost absurd. This would necessitate a much greater reduction in costs than has been proposed, and would benefit future generations only at the expense of present ones...