Word: buildings
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Shrewdly President Roosevelt let others launch his attack on oligopoly, dispatching lieutenants to rostrum and microphone. Politicians suspected that all this was a build-up for a similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in a broadcast last fortnight by another Jackson, who happens to be head of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first...
Surprise. Few practices arouse more bitterness among utility men than that of Federal money to build municipal plants which compete with private companies. When the PWA made a loan and grant to establish public plants in four small northern Alabama communities, the constitutionality of the project was promptly attacked by Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary Alabama Power Co. A similar action was brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold...
Dictionary of American English lists words that 1) originated in the U.S. 2) have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...
...logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands of dollars' worth very satisfactorily on its back. Just as logically, "Uncle Fred" Delano's commission returned to Geneva and recommended that one good way to prevent the world's being flooded by Persian opium was to build the Persians a railway so they could ship something else. Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar...
Benjamin F. Shibe. a manufacturer of baseball equipment, to build a ball park and buy a ball team. The Athletics, with Mack as manager, played their first game in 1901, won their first pennant in 1902, their second in 1905. But Manager Mack's first great team - with the famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking...