Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...site of the museum which the American School hopes to build, the diggers found a treasure which looked like a page from a history book. Thrown away and buried deep were several hundred ostraka-bits of broken pottery on which Athenian voters once wrote the names of public men they wished to elect or to exile. Among the names on exile ballots were three which still echo in history: Themistocles, Hippocrates, and Aristides...
Unforgivable Debt. The RFC bluntly rejected Henry Kaiser's plea that it write off $85 million of the $123 million it had loaned him during the war to build his Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. Kaiser had contended that the writeoff would be in line with the $162 million loss the Government took on the war surplus sale of its $200 million Geneva (Utah) plant. Said RFC: the situations were not at all similar. U.S. Steel bought Geneva - Fontana's competitor-through open bidding long after the plant was built. But Kaiser himself built, operated and reaped the wartime...
...cars could be freed by a single decision-if old-line railroad managements would act. . . . There is good reason to believe that by lifting deliberate freight slowdowns on the roads that still practice them, we could provide more cars this summer and fall than our shops can possibly build. . . . Write to your newspaper and your congressman...
...took $4.7 billion of private capital to build the industry's 80 million-ton prewar capacity. It cost $2.5 billion to add 15 million tons during the war. At present prices, it would probably cost another $2.5 billion to add another ten million tons. Such costs, argues the industry, would force the high price of steel still higher...
...pressagent, prey to the pressagent's stock neurosis: Shall I go on prostituting my talent for dough or shall I bravely become a Serious Writer? A nice girl, Beth, thinks Eddie should be brave, but his boss, Nick Latka, has a big thing for him to build up-a giant Argentine with a glass jaw who can be babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings off to the West Coast with the traveling menagerie for which...