Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main purposes of the plan are to check fascist lawlessness by cutting off war materials; to build up a reserve of these materials in the United States without further drain on the national budget; and to get some return on our war debts...
...Hatred is a poor thing upon which to build a memory...
...Raymond is a bony, thin-lipped man of 50, with sunken cheeks and an ascetic affability. Born in Prague, he was once a U. S. assistant military attache in Switzerland, an engineer-architect with the late Cass Gilbert. Frank Lloyd Wright took him to Tokyo in 1919 to help build the Imperial Hotel. Raymond stayed there, became Japan's foremost modern builder. He employed as many as 100 men in his Tokyo office, did 600 jobs, including the U. S., French, Soviet. Belgian and Manchukuoan embassy buildings...
...biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season, the Metropolitan revived Boris for one of its best bassos, Ezio Pinza. Though Pinza was longer on voice than Chaliapin, and equal to him in build and makeup, critics agreed that the haunt still held...
...bands of the same style); whenever you hear a band playing with that feeling of being just behind the beat, but not worrying too much about catching up, and brass with great solidity but not noise, you have Kansas City swing and music worth listening to. Goodman tried to build a white band that could play this way (and had one for a while), but as soon as he added Harry James and the "powerhouse trumpet" style, he should have rented the band out for pile-driving, not for playing swing...