Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds for half the cost, flunked what the President considers "the best test yet devised for insuring that a project is sound." So down came the veto...
...majors have been recording stereophonically (i.e., channeling the sound into two tracks) as well as monaurally for several years to build a repertory backlog for eventually selling the average home listener on stereo's extra depth and clarity. A small fraction of the recordings is on the market as stereo tapes, but the high cost of tape equipment and of the tape itself ($14.95 and up for the amount of music that goes for $3.98 or $4.98 on LPs) limits its sale. As an alternative, the industry concentrated its research on the development of a stereo disk that would...
...wanted Los Angeles to grade and improve the land in Chavez Ravine and build access roads, and, what is more, he wanted the work done promptly. The Dodgers, then, would build a stadium. They would expect a couple of consecutive 99-year leases on the land at $1 a year, and they intended to pay no taxes. There were numerous other demands. But if the O'Malley ultimatum dismayed Mayor Poulson, he gave no sign. He simply took the paper back home and turned it over to the bright young men he has hired to mind the store...
...around snivelling about how little money you have. Everybody knows you have just oodles stashed away for a rainy day. Well, friends, at the present time there's a flood. So pile up the money and build the dam that will help our nation's economy. Spend money. Waste money. Have a ball for yourself. Just so long as you really spread it around...
...trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice of the highway-building program. While the Government puts up most of the money to build a new bridge, the trouble is that the states are responsible for bearing the cost of all maintenance. Aluminum does not need painting or scraping, so it answers much of the cost problem...