Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of sports-conscious Detroiters asked the city to build a $14,500,000 stadium with 104,000 seats and a removable roof. Reason: it would provide a handy site for the 1952 Olympic Games if Finland (the host apparent) is unable to hold them...
Before Hollinger can move a ton of ore, it must build a railroad to the St. Lawrence at Seven Islands, where it is ice-free about ten months out of the year. The survey for the 360-mile rail line ($100 million to build and equip) will be finished next year. The line will take three years to complete. Hollinger already has an eye on Eaton Canyon's 350-ft, waterfall, with its 500,000 h.p. potential, for a power source. Production in Ungava is probably five years away, and some $200 million will be poured into it before...
When she decided to build her new factory, she laid it out with some of her own shrewd ideas of how to eliminate waste motion (e.g., it has tilted tables down which workpieces slide from one worker to another without having to be carried). By such production-boosting devices she expects to step up her gross next year to $14 million (her net is Nellie's own secret...
...proposal to build a tablet in Memorial Church next to the names of Harvard's World War I dead now must go to the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs, which is scheduled to meet tomorrow to consider the plan...
Mahoney stressed limited world government as the only way out of the present "desperate situation." It is necessary to work through the existing structure of the UN. Mahoney said, to build a world government with powers to act through a world constitution...