Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving-the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open huts during their wanderings in the wilderness of Sinai...
...Radiology in Chicago that Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a 5,000,000-volt generator which could be adapted for X-ray work, told them that an experimental 10,000,000-volt generator exists, promised them that "it would be a perfectly straightforward engineering and manufacturing job to build one for several times this voltage...
Most of the 2,500 existing doodlebugs have a 75-inch wheelbase, as compared to the 105-inch average of standard racing cars, weigh from 600 to 1,000 lb. The original midget cars were crude affairs powered by motorcycle engines, later by outboard motors, cost about $400 to build. In 1934 Los Angeles' Frederick Offenhauser, longtime assistant of Harry Miller whose standard-size engines won most of the important U. S. auto races in the past decade, developed a special miniature motor. Most top-notch doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing...
...needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily at its 1932 low of $5.50. In January 1934 they had control and headed south to Savannah, Ga. to build one of the world's biggest paper plants...
...getting students boils down to this: "There aren't enough clients to go around, and a wild scramble for students has been the result." The competition between colleges has in fact, Tunis declares, become so intense that prospective students are being bribed, bought, and even kidnapped in order to build enrollments. A case in Indiana is reported where three students were transported to another campus and there offered such inducements that they immediately signed for the kidnapping college...