Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government officially announced that the Labor Front is now beginning work "immediately" near Brunswick on the world's largest automobile plant, expressly to build Volkswagen. The plant, a Nazi show place, is to rise in the open countryside, surrounded by new homes for thousands of workers, with sports grounds, gymnasium, a hotel for visitors, administration offices perched high in a tower. Keynoted Nazi spokesmen: "Soon there will be a Volkswagen for every German...
...same time the reason for Soviet persistence became known. Russia is clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...train them in short; wave techniques, send them their instructions by radio, hear in return how the programs-news, music, lectures, little religion-are received. The Church's fourth man-in-command, Presiding Bishop Sylvester Quayle Cannon, informed the F.C.C. that $1,500,000 is immediately available to build the station. Furthermore, the Church makes $40,000 to $50,000 a year from its interest in Salt Lake commercial Station KSL. An examiner for the F.C.C. therefore reported that "the applicant is financially, legally, technically, and otherwise qualified to construct and operate the proposed station...
...renown for research, not teaching. Last week Researcher Carmichael, only 39, became a college president. He will take over as seventh president of Massachusetts' Tufts College in September, succeeding the late Dr. John Albert Cousens. But Dr. Carmichael is not abandoning a good thing. Tufts, too, will build him a brand-new, well-equipped laboratory for research in sensory physiology and sensory psychology...
...streets across the nation" and re-introduced the measure fortnight ago. His was the only super-highway scheme reduced to map form (see map) and consequently the one on which argument focused last week. It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly to work, says he, and would be a great aid to national defense. (His six North-South arteries stop significantly short...