Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital. Mr. Kennedy could find only nine companies reasonably sure to survive on the new subsidies. And Mr. Kennedy reported: "The brutal truth is that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet. . . . Many of our operators built their business on vessels which they secured from the Government at prices as low as $5 a deadweight ton. Who is going to replace these vessels at $200 a ton? The Commission is forced to conclude that from all present indications it will have...
...Aztecs, whose beautiful city of Tencchtitlàn was razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with plumes and ornaments, massive, configured in snake-like coils and curves. Baltimore's show includes many of the best-preserved Maya figures of gods and warriors, huge-nosed...
...ever since the President tired of lambasting the bankers. Not only did the New Deal create the toothy Public Utility Act of 1935 with its famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value of U. S. utility securities has fallen some $7,000,000,000, and private powermen have brewed...
...newest Saks-Fifth Avenue will be built on Wilshire Boulevard in moderately undeveloped territory a mile and a half from the centre of Beverly Hills. But more important than its distance from the centre of Beverly Hills is its distance from Fifth Avenue. Saks-Fifth Avenue already has a big branch in Chicago and sleek resort shops in such places as Jackson, N. H. and Sun Valley, Idaho. Another in Greenwich, Conn., was opened last month. But no New York store has ever gone so far away from home as California, apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians...
...estimated 80 to 90% will want some vocational training. These will continue to get instruction in a few basic academic subjects, such as English. To make possible this revolutionary shift in the curriculum, Dr. Johnson announced these contemplated steps: 1) Next to all high schools will be built factories and workshops for industrial training. 2) New technical schools and trade schools will be built. 3) The technical high-school course will be three instead of four years. 4) Trade schools will have a 12-month school year. 5) As they retire, resign or die, one-half of Chicago...