Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their share of PWA's millions, they would take $6,000,000 (as a starter) to divert some of the flow of the big Santee River, which empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud but sleepy Charleston...
...although the Squalus had not passed the testing stage and only two weeks before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines (she was commissioned in March, cost $5,000,000 to build), the Squalus was named for the dogfish, which dives fast and swims deep...
...five years before Dr. Charlie graduated from medical school at Northwestern University, a cyclone hit Rochester, injuring 300 citizens. Appalled at Rochester's lack of facilities, old Dr. Mayo began to build a clinic. When it opened in 1889, he was 70 and ready to retire, but both sons pitched in and divided the work between them. From the beginning they specialized in surgery. Will did abdomens; Charlie, everything else. They worked up a large practice, went East and abroad for extensive postgraduate study, and in 15 years found themselves world-famous...
Paramount will build a new $12,000,000 plant in West Los Angeles, make 60 pictures, including two starring Charles Laughton; Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and London After Dark with Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh...
...room. From unsuspecting holders of tidewater property above Baltimore, options were cautiously obtained by agents who represented themselves as acting for a New York sportsmen's club. When they were all in, Glenn L. Martin Co. had options on 1,243 acres of land, was ready to build a plant...