Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany last week continued to build more & more airplanes, Britain continued to dig deeper & deeper holes in which, to hide from them. > Lord Privy Seal Sir John Anderson, who actually is British Minister for Civilian Defense, announced in the House of Commons last week what the well-dressed British baby will wear in the next war. Sir John said the Government has ordered 1,400,000 little gas helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...
...build-up began with Harry Hopkins' own well-dramatized swearing-in as Secretary of Commerce on Christmas Eve. It was continued in Franklin Roosevelt's rousing message to Congress about an 80-billion-dollar country. It was renewed by his remarks about "no new taxes," on the train south last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week the build-up was intensified by Secretary Morgenthau, who proposed not only to avoid new taxes but to mitigate those which give businessmen a "what's-the-use" attitude. The Administration's tax man in the House, Chairman Bob Doughton...
...maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires 225,000 amperes-enough current to light a million...
...some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...