Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goethals built the Panama Canal...
...Wood, famed racer and manufacturer. The Greenwich Folly of George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer Co., winner last August of the Gold Cup, greatest of all motor boat speed prizes, was absent. But there were numerous speedy Chris-Craft, numerous Dodge Water Cars, sometimes raised to specially built speed efficiency and raced by the only notable woman marine speedster, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of Horace E. Dodge, famed maker of Dodge automobiles...
...commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati was the Queen City of the West...
...steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores of potential power-her precipitate rivers. Great electric power companies have built hydroelectric plants from the Alps down along the Apennines and in Sicily. They produced two years ago 7,600 millions kilowatts of electricity. That was less than 200 kilowatts for each person in Italy (the U. S. last year supplied 627 kilowatts per person) and not enough. The Italian plants...
...main building is merely divided into squares. It is probable however that about 18 squash courts will occupy the ground and second floors; in the basement there may be a second and smaller swimming pool, primarily for beginners, and on the third floor three basketball courts may be built, a large central floor being flanked on either side by a slightly smaller court. For intercollegiate basketball games on the center court, stands may be erected on the two smaller courts...