Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense, headed by shrewd Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, contends: 1) That the Elk Hills leases were both a profitable and a patriotic move for the Government, because in return for them the Doheny interests built an oil reserve plant for the U. S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;* 2) That the entire transaction was urged and approved by onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby; 3) That Secretary Fall had only wanted to serve in President Harding's Cabinet for one year as "the capstone of his public career," and that he stayed a second year because...
...ahead of them, constantly meeting new problems which I swiftly grappled anc solved. I returned to England anc formed a company, since known as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd., to exploit my work (I have ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight during Cowes Week and at her command I kept her in constant touch...
...Auburn Sts., this hall to serve men in the dormitories in the vicinity. Others should be erected where possible with a view toward accommodating the occupants of the Yard dormitories, and the students in the Kirkland St., Cambridge St., and Broadway district. Such dining-halls should be built with an eye to pleasant interior decoration and good lighting. Their location should be planned to solve the problem of convenience...
...Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams built across these arms of the sea, will whirl as the tides rush through them; and electricity will be produced. Thus progresses the ageless dream of making the ocean work...
...week gave a smiling, chattering welcome to his friends-bankers, actors, merchants, politicos-come for the opening of his new Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. This new theatre-it is the latest of more than 800 that Adolph Zukor with Jesse L. Lasky and their Famous Players-Lasky associates have built or bought-is a $3,000,000 affair built into the new $17,000,000 Paramount Building at 43rd Street and Times Square. Most of the money went into equipment-marble lobby, rotunda, halls; 3,900 seats; elevators, even to the cheapest gallery seats, lounge rooms, the music room...