Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated that an average of 600,000 to 800,000 dwelling units ought to be built annually over the next five years to overcome the accumulated shortage and to meet the normal growth in number of families. In other words, we could build over the next five years three or four million housing units, which at a moderate estimate of $4,000 per unit would mean spending from twelve to 16 billion dollars, without creating a surplus of housing accommodations, and consequently without impairing the value of existing housing that is fit for decent human occupancy...
...record that Sprouse aims to beat was spotty. The team lost most of its meets, though it made great strides as the season progressed. With seven lettermen back, Coach Peroy will have a solid foundation on which to build an improved team...
...flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost about the same. For just about a third of that sum enough flying boats could be constructed to handle the same number of passengers in one-fifth the time, at approximately...
...sorry for the foxes, he brings the whole countryside down on him. Margaret is killed in an automobile accident the day before the wedding. Mansell sinks his grief into a feud with his neighbors. He hauls trespassers into court, buys up the remaining hunting coverts, announces that he will build a munitions plant, a model community, a machine gun range, a Buddhist temple...
...scheme as it revealed itself follows: American importers pay for their furs through London banking facilities and thus have in their records canceled checks showing that they do not deal with Nazi Germany. The American dollars are then forwarded from London to Germany thus allowing the Nazi regime to build up its foreign exchange balance. Meanwhile, Germany buys the Rumanian furs, paying for them in lei that were placed to its credit in Rumania as a result of barter arrange- ments. ... As the Rumanian money has little value in the foreign exchange marts, the German Government gains materially...