Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built expensive blocks and flats where children weren't allowed...
...years travelers who went to bed on trains either slept behind the green curtains of standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted...
...study of soil mechanics. This work is under the direction of Professor Arthur Casagrande. The use of earth, either for construction purposes or as foundations for carrying structures, is as old as human civilization itself. For centuries builders have witnessed gradual or sudden subsidences of their structures, when not built on solid rock, sometimes with disastrous consequences. It is a perplexing fact that this tremendous amount of human experience did not crystallize into a scientific approach to the mechanics of soils until about fifteen years...
Thirty-five years ago, in uptown Manhattan, devout Russians built, with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral...
Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services...