Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political observers maintain that motives political as well as personal have dictated the President's proposed Western excursion. In 1870 a torchlight procession smoked down Pennsylvania Avenue, besought President Grant to have built a permanent Western White House somewhere west of the Mississippi. At the last session of Congress, Representative Dickinson of Iowa resurrected the proposal. Official Washington, including the President, is said to frown on the Western White House idea as needlessly expensive...
...Near Memphis, Tenn., bootleggers built stills in treetops above flood waters, peddled their wares by boat. Officials seized 12 giant stills, two with capacities of 750 gallons; destroyed 45 vats each holding 1,000 gallons of mash...
...North American businessmen must realize that greater efficiency is needed in foreign trade than in domestic. There must be' built up what is now entirely lacking?a North American personnel eager to go to foreign fields which will understand the social and cultural life and language of Latin America as well as the business facts. North Americans must learn that building foreign trade is an art?and that art is long...
Work is at present under way, a large number of men being employed in leveling and grading the land. The tennis courts, which will be built during the summer, and the fields will be ready for use next fall...
...first of the series occurs at 9 o'clock in Emerson A, where Mr. E. D. Smith's class will discuss some problems of honesty and accuracy in the factory. As the practical center about which modern social and industrial life has been built, the factory and the mental and moral conditions which it breeds, is a question which touches us closely...