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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congregation, so that no general canvass for funds will be needed or made. If any shortage of funds develops, certain members have guaranteed sufficient financing. Such amplitude of money stopped tentative talk last summer of constructing a "skyscraper," church, like the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple to be built on Washington Heights, Manhattan, for Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, with apartments, club rooms, etc., to produce income for the support of the church. The Baptists scorned the idea...
Fort Wayne, Ind., remembers a short, wiry, 16-year-old boy whose parents, in 1910, mortgaged their home for $1,800 that he might fly. He purchased materials, a motor, built a plane, showed his mother how to sew canvas on his wings. His first flight wiped out six months' work all but the motor. He built again, flew at exhibitions, paid off the mortgage. He learned to loop the loop before most U. S. flyers. Soon fleecy streamers of smoke were seen high over cities, spelling out trademarks for advertisers. The Fort Wayne boy had invented "sky-writing...
...agree full heartedly with the Prince of Denmark, whose views on this subject were recently printed by the CRIMSON. The new college near Sofia will be as well equipped as many of the well known American colleges. The plans show a group of buildings which could not be built in America for less than $2,500,000. Manual labor can be hired for nearly nothing and most of the building materials come from nearby sources...
Student Barracks Being Built...
...buildings will be of a specialized type that can be built for $1.90 per sq. ft. as against $3.35 for ordinary garages. Economies are effected in heating; speed is gained in handling. Chauffeurs will be loaned. Tenants of one city will be afforded free service in other cities on the chain...