Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission asked jurisdiction, may cut sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission's first proposed type-the so-called C-2 carrying 7,000 tons of freight, twelve passengers and a crew of 46-has met practical objections from shipowners...
...would give private capital every opportunity. Indeed, most of the changes recommended in the present law were designed to encourage the private operation -protection against unjust cancellation of subsidies, reduction of down payment on ships from 25% of domestic cost to 25% equivalent foreign cost, permission to build abroad when the cost is more than 50% cheaper than at home, easing provisions for recapture of profits, easing restrictions on foreign registry and allowing the Commission to waive at its discretion the present $25,000 salary limit for officers of subsidized lines...
...mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the U. S. Labor was WPA. The sculptor, who claimed to be the first to use stainless steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME, Feb. 15). Many an old Chinese who suns himself daily in St. Mary's Square can remember Sun Yat-sen during his residence in San Francisco about 30 years ago; Sculptor Bufano can remember living in his Canton...
Well did Benjamin Allin know that it takes more than sound engineering, machinery and strong backs to build a port. The trick is to operate one. By 1933, Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed...
...Deal create the toothy Public Utility Act of 1935 with its famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities has fallen some $7,000,000,000, and private powermen have brewed a peculiarly vitriolic fear and hatred of the New Deal and all its power...