Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father, but he tries to crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this play Howard seeks to show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant ministers are his priests, but at the same time he insists upon virtue triumphant in the grand, unblushing style, and pits two heroes, a stout...
...Leader immediately began efforts to enlist State aid and to build up his union from 250 members to a full-fledged majority, entitled to bargaining rights...
...ferry across the angry waters the pipe and corrugated iron sheeting needed for the Congress City. The Congressman in charge of the work, Mr. Nanda Lai Bose, a dry goods merchant by profession, went upriver in search of a shallow ford, discovered a bamboo forest, and drastically decided to build most of the City of bamboo. Three thousand villagers were set to chopping the long reeds. Huge rafts of bamboo swept down the flood, were lassoed from the banks as they came opposite the site, and Congress City was soon rising in record time amid the great mogul...
...inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile, the National Education Association had sponsored the Fletcher-Harrison Bill to appropriate first $100,000,000, later $300,000,000 a year, for education...
...biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States will tear up its various interpretations of the flood wave, refuse ever to build for the future, and thereafter depend upon the gods...