Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still lapse into their native tongues when excited. Mrs. Cowles believes in progressive education for the three-to six-year-olds-with the emphasis on carpentry, finger painting and other "creative" games. She hopes her pupils will also learn international understanding. Says she: "Maybe this is a way to build from the bottom...
Record companies decided that it was smarter not to boast about their backlogs. Said one record man: "We don't want the public to get too complacent about this thing." They wanted public pressure to build against Petrillo. Actually, he hadn't asked for a thing yet. Most of them, to stay in business, would have willingly continued to pay Petrillo's AFM $2,000,000 a year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other...
...thing, the Government, always suspicious of Wall Street, gladly approved the deal for sale of the Inches because it got back all but $2 million of the $145 million it had spent to build the pipelines. Moreover, the financial legerdemain had created something of benefit to the nation. By finding an outlet for Texas gas, the company would cut down the shocking waste of over 600 billion cubic feet of gas a year now "flared" at Texas and Louisiana oil wells...
...action granted each nation. But this trust in the financial ability of each nation will mean little to Europeans when the state Department insists on national purification before the flow of dollars. The avowed purpose of Mr. Harriman's project is to renew confidence in democratic government and to build a European buffer against Russia. Any ill-advised plan to cut off every country smudged by Communism can only serve to defeat these purposes...
...Reality. In 1924, as Nellie had predicted, the paved highway came, not long after she and her sons, George Roberson, now 60 (by her first husband) and Earl Coffman, now 55, had borrowed $35,000 to build the first concrete buildings which are now part of the rambling Desert Inn, with its tile-roofed guest houses, swimming pool and tennis court. They continued expanding through 1930, when the depression caught them $675,000 in debt. Not until 1945 did Nellie manage to pay off all her debts...