Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview in Chungking, China's gentle Premier Dr. H. H. Kung asked the U. S. some pertinent if rhetorical questions: "Why should Japan build a great Navy if her territorial ambitions are confined to China? Why should they have established in the United States, Panama and elsewhere in the Americas an espionage system from coast to coast? Why, also, should Japanese fishing fleets congregate in such numbers off the Pacific Coast of the U. S. and why should Japanese fishermen ply their craft in every bay and inlet of the Hawaiian Islands...
Sixty-eight-year-old Henry C. Turner, a Quaker from Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross...
Outstanding among Stone & Webster orders was one to build a 32,000-kilowatt generating plant to help Big Steel's huge plants in Pittsburgh's Monongahela Valley. Big Steel, fresh from a $642,000,000 modernization program, still has more old-fashioned equipment to replace than its smaller competitors. (Only a month ago it resurrected some old-style hand rolling mills to help handle its huge order book.) Last week word leaked out that Big Steel would install three new continuous rolling mills in its new ($60,000,000) Irvin Works at a cost of over...
...product of the boom in U. S. air-crafting is a sensational airplane plant building boom. At Paterson (N. J.) Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp., flush with $7,000,000 of new Army business, got ready last week to build 300,000 sq. ft. of new floor space. In California -at Inglewood, San Diego, Hawthorne-North American Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Northrop, planned new buildings. Newest centre of U. S. aircraft's effort to reach the stature of a mass instead of unit producing industry is Detroit, where 27 companies have been officially approved as parts suppliers...
...escape acting as a collection agency for big banks that loan money to the Allies. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the immediate occasion of our going to war against Germany in 1917, cannot now affect us. A good foundation for our neutrality has been laid; now comes the time to build the house...