Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some "big outfit" is soon going to "build houses on a belt like Ford and drop them off where the cellars have been dug." So predicted State Comptroller Morris S. Tremaine of New York last week, for the passage of a constitutional amendment to authorize State housing-subsidy bonds...
...That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began to build a merchant marine. His policy of "Turkey for the Turks'' largely eliminated the foreign capital, dominant during the Sultans' time...
...Nova Scotian) was defending the International Fishermen's Trophy for the fourth time under her skipper, Captain Angus Walters, a peppery old salt. The challenger, Gertrude L. Thebaud (named after the wife of a Gloucester summer resident who put up most of the $78,000 necessary to build her eight years ago), was making her second attempt to regain the trophy-with Captain Ben Pine at the wheel...
...According to Plans... Silliman College would have a handsome brick front facing the Georgian-federalist Timothy Dwight, tapering off to a forbidding-looking Gothic prison facade to match the present Van-Sheff unit," says the News."... Would that it were possible for Yale to build her latest... in accordance with functional requirements, instead of again indulging in her quaint whims such as that of a gymnasium designed as a medieval fortress or a library as a cathedral...
Motormaker Sloan said he expected consumer buying to be "substantially improved over that existing during the past few months.... To assist in carrying on its stabilization of employment program, the corporation will again build substantial inventories in excess of retail demand during the winter months. . . ." Not to be outdone, President K. T. Keller of Chrysler Corp. announced the rehiring of 34,000 men since August 1, the restoration of March salary cuts. Said he: "Current business is brisk. . . . Stocks of cars in dealers' hands are 31,500 today, as against 98,000 at this time a year...