Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehearsing both points. Listeners to the nation-wide General Motors radio hour heard a homily on "The Right to Work." In Detroit, Vice President Knudsen announced that, to give 95,000 nonstriking employes at least part-time work, G. M. would this week reopen all the plants it could, build up inventories of parts and perhaps produce complete trucks at the Chevrolet plant in Indianapolis...
...eight years the Army's brains and Congressional generosity have provided the Mississippi with a flood control system whose limits will supposedly never be approached. Why, stormed Indiana's Representative Glenn Griswold, was not something like that done about the Ohio? It was "stupid," said he, to build levees on the Mississippi to hold floods which rose and did their first damage on the Ohio. "It seems to me," said this Democratic member of the House Flood Control Committee, "that Congressmen from the South have been less interested in Mississippi flood control as a problem than in having...
Last week, not in his budget message but in a press conference held before he sent it to Congress, President Roosevelt intimated that he thought it would be foolish to build up such a huge reserve. For the time being he would be content to let the reserve pile up, but after it has got a start, adopt a "pay-as-you-go" policy, presumably reducing Social Security taxes so as to collect no more than was paid out in pensions...
...Geddes began to tear out the theatre's interior, a cast of 220 began rehearsing and the premiere was set for Dec. 23, 1935. First thing that happened was that the stage required costly reinforcement with steel beams. It then became necessary to excavate beneath the stage to build a place to move Mr. Bel Geddes' great blocks of scenery. The stage was built on solid rock...
Rancher Wichman believes the drought era is over, plans to build up his new flock of sheep to 30,000. Son of a Honolulu sugar and cattle man, he fought in the French artillery after college, returned to San Francisco to buy a New York Stock Exchange seat, which he sold before Depression, retiring to Hawaii. Now he is returning to the mainland to educate his three sons...