Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London build the city of the free...
Contending that ex-President Guth had used Loft assets, facilities, personnel and credit to build up Pepsi-Cola, Loft brought suit for the 237,500 shares (91%) of Pepsi-Cola stock held by Mr. Guth and his family holding company, Grace Co. When Delaware's Court of Chancery last year agreed with Loft, Pepsi-Cola was selling at $70 a share (it is now $130). Pepsi-Cola profits were $2,700,000 in the first nine months of 1938; Loft lost $867,000 in the same period...
...know a fellow can get into an awful lot of messes when he starts helping the other fellow with his troubles instead of minding his own business. If he has nothing else to do, he ought to go fishing. . . . So, instead of building faster airplanes, bigger battleships and a bigger army, lets build bigger and better lakes to fish in, and stock 'em with fish with bigger and better appetites. However, before we do all this, I think we should team up with England, France, Belgium and China and put Europe back on a status quo basis of about...
...years ago Designer Stafford tried to interest the Defense Ministry in civilian camouflage but met indifference. Later, the Government perked up its ears. Since September Mr. Stafford and his artists have busied themselves developing techniques for "painting out" vulnerable buildings. Their first step is to obtain aerial photographs of all aspects of a building and to study the surrounding countryside. Then the expert camouflagers build and camouflage a scale model before the actual building is tackled...
...taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures by huddling together, nervously loquacious, at the edge of an abyss...