Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces drove the Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would be an important strategic position, commanding with its guns a future naval base which the Red Navy hopes to build at nearby Posieta...
...fifth the annual sale before 1900. Since then, however, bicycling has had an astonishing revival. Last year U. S. citizens bought more bicycles (1,300,000) than ever before. Last week New York's efficient, hard-working Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who has spent over $500,000,000 building parks and boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives in New York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four-lane pedaling parkways, submitted his scheme to the Works Progress Administration for approval. As part...
...begin at once paying installments of five marks ($2) per week toward a car which is to cost about $400, and no interest will be paid on the weekly deposits. If 1,000,000 of Germany's workers subscribe, $104,000,000 will pour in to help build the KdF factory. Meanwhile, batches of apprentices, supplied with free board & lodging, are in training for the "high honor" of working in the new factory...
...WEAF and WJZ), which serve New York City, most populous U. S. metropolitan area. Competing big stations contended that 500-kw. superpower is too rich a plum to give to one station in a competitive business, asked for equal power. Smaller stations, which could not afford to build and maintain superpower transmitters even if they could secure licenses, feared that the penetration of 500-kw. voices into their territory would steal their business, wanted no station to have such power...
Because there is ice in Juneau harbor some months of the year, Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers-probably the Boeing 307s, scheduled for delivery this autumn. Also it hopes to get Congress to build landing fields, on the same principle by which railroads got land grants. Chief lobbying point is military: when this last zig is filled in, Nome will be only 24 hours from Washington...