Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent the waste of surplus power, the Bonneville administrator should be empowered to build transmission lines, substations, etc. etc. More than that, he should have a power (which TVA does not have) "to acquire by eminent domain if need be, such real and personal property, franchises, electric transmission lines and facilities as may be necessary"-in short to condemn and take over private facilities...
...alarming part of the Victory speech was Roosevelt's determination to name himself as supreme genius of the new social order. He has no monopoly of humanitarian ideals nor are he and his clique the only ones who can write sound laws. To build the ark of his "more abundant life" he needs tons of objective, outside advice and a lot of rechecking. So long as he adds every no-man to the rolls of the Union League Club, so far will the construction fall short of the blue print...
...sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan connected with the College of the Sacred Heart...
...have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...Duwamish Waterway, booming Boeing last week began adding to its 2,000 employes, secretively kept figures to itself, but delightedly announced that its unfilled contracts totted up to the biggest sum in the company's 21-year history. "Henceforth" remarked Claire Egtvedt, "Boeing will build only four-motored jobs...