Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill embodies Mr. Kennedy's ideas that transoceanic air lines should supplement the merchant marine. Indeed, he is not adverse to having ship owners go into aviation. His plan is to put overseas aviation on the same footing as shipping-even to the point of providing subsidies to build planes...
...month. The chief of the French General Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin. recently visited Rumania to bring up to date the technical details of France's military alliance with Hohenzollern Carol's Kingdom. M. Delbos was insured a welcome because he came to offer French capital to build a Rumanian factory which will turn out war tanks, and to arrange that Rumanian crude oil and gasoline will be accepted by Paris in payment for fine new artillery, additional tanks to be supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos in a fervent pledge...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924 and the expulsion of Trotsky, Stalin has driven and scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes has been measured in the execution of thousands, and the exile to Siberia and the Polar North of hundreds of thousands who resisted his driving and scolding. To Stalin as to his people this week's election is a milestone. Last year when he gave them their Constitution, its terms...
...wants from the eight leading U. S. firms that build big airplanes a machine delivered within three years that will fly 5,000 mi. non-stop at 200 m.p.h. at altitudes up to 20,000 ft. and carry a payload of 25,000 Ib. in which is included full day and night accommodation for 100 passengers, crew of 16, mail, baggage and express. Six months from now if Colonel Lindbergh and P. A. A. are still interested, $35,000 will be allotted to cover the cost to the builders of further estimates. As nothing a third the size has ever...
...Moreover, to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. More than this, the government would have to begin even now, in peace-time, to build up a surplus of import raw materials as reserve against war scarcity...