Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of increasing their tax receipts and of thereby being able to pay their debts, and at the same time to build, equip and endow hospitals for all communities, thereby benefiting humanity instead of satisfying our own sentimental vanity, I propose that a tax of 100% be placed on the cost of burial, starting with the wreath or what have you after death, through to the finished and marked grave...
...Washington Secretary Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...
...before in Chicago alert President Lucius B. Manning of Aviation Corp. (which owns American Airlines) boomed: "I have just returned from Russia, Germany, France, Italy and England. . . . They are in a frantic race to build airplanes and I propose that the United States start at once to build at least 9,000. . . . We are a long ways behind in military aviation. . . . Unless this country wakes up we will be helplessly behind and dangerously vulnerable...
Last week in Manhattan's Union League Club, a die-hard Republican organization which, after the Civil War, used to send carpetbaggers South to round up the Negro vote, was launched a drive for money to build a new Lincoln library, dining hall, and gymnasium, make many a campus improvement. President Johnson announced the $1,000 check from Alumnus Brooks as the first contribution, put it up as bait for $399,000 more...
...contrary, let us view the problem in view of the 5-5-5 ratio, or, in other words, equality. On this score, there is no question about our ability to out-build, in the event of war, Japan or any other nation. Thus, either with the 5-5-3 ratio or the 5-5-5, provided one of the limitations are determined upon, the conclusion is that we would be still one step ahead...