Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that many U.S. farmers were not as lucky as Farmer Roth. Those who did not have enough Government-approved storage of their own could qualify for Government loans on their grain surplus only by storing it in Government bins. When the Republican Both Congress refused to appropriate funds to build additional Government storage space, many farmers were unable to find room for all their crops, hence were unable to get crop loans on their surplus, and voted the Democratic ticket in protest...
...Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment to Solomon. The Gimo derived the lesson: "Man proposes...
Last week the whites and Negro Attorney Martin agreed on a truce: restore the science courses to the white school, float a special bond issue to build a new $150,000 Negro school with all courses and conveniences. Superintendent T. Benton Gayle admitted: "It's terribly wasteful-even transportation is segregated, and we have two buses going down the same road. But as a taxpayer, I would rather pay higher taxes and have segregation...
...Peter Faneuil told the town of Boston he would build "a noble and complete structure or edifice to be improved for a market" at his own expense, and would the town accept it? With Faneuil putting up the cash, how could Boston refuse? It took two years to build the structure--which not only had market facilities, but a large meeting hall on the second floor--and when it was finished, the town voted "that in testimony of the town's gratitude to the said Peter Faneuil, Esq., . . . the hall over the market place be named Faneuil Hall...
Camels & Crutches. The flat valley land on both sides of the road into Taiyuan was a forest of pillboxes of every shape and size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...