Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking about the European situation as a whole, Hicks declared, "The aim of all recent British policy is to build Germany to the point where it can fight the Soviet Union...
...these additions to our national wealth, additions resulting from public expenditures that are based upon increase of public debt, more 'wasteful' than the expenditures in the late twenties, based upon private debt, whereby billions of dollars were diverted to uncollectable foreign loans and to build at inflated prices huge skyscrapers, office buildings and apartment houses, many of which have never been sufficiently occupied to maintain the investment...
...Japan refused to sign the 1936 London Naval Treaty limiting battleships to 35,000 tons, but has given assurances that she did not intend to build bigger ship. Without bothering to call Japan a liar, Jane's reports that Japan is building four, all believed to be "over 40,000 tons," mounting eight or nine 16-inch guns each and having speeds of 30 knots. Two of them reportedly were put on the ways...
...Britain, having last summer invoked the "escalator clause" of the London Treaty allowing her to build above the 35,000-ton limit, plans to start work on the Lion and the Temeraire early in 1939. Both will be "about 40,000 tons" and will mount an undisclosed number of 16-inch guns. These are in addition to five 35,000 tonners already on British ways which will match the heavier Japanese battleships in speed...
...place for an airport was determined as early as 1931 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Credit for putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor and a grant...