Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General for failure to permit it to hold an orderly election. Now the case will be settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback for Senator Wagner. Budd Manufacturing. Next most vexing case to Senator Wagner concerns Edward Gowen Budd, Philadelphia manufacturer who built up a big business in all-steel automobile bodies and now is be- ginning to make stainless steel streamlined trains. Last November 1,300 of his workers went on strike charging that the company was trying to prevent the A. F. of L. from organizing its plants. The Regional Labor...
...hopeless-that is, the unemployed down-&-outs-let's start at the top . . . unless we are willing to say, 'Let them starve.'" Not long afterward the Cabinet split mortally and foundered. Down went most of Labor. Up went the Three. Old George, largely because he had built so many orange-colored bath houses in his home district, managed to get reelected. But as far as Labor was concerned, he had spoken his piece. Other men led Labor's great victory last week in London while Old George looked at the ceiling...
...Storrow Basin" in honor of the late James Jackson Storrow '85 have been announced and have received the official vote of the City Council. A final approval of the plan will come through the Metropolitan Park Commission which expects to consider the question next summer after the embankment being built on the south side of the basin by Mrs. Helen Osborne Storrow, widow of the late Mr. Storrow, is completed...
...Aviation has been progressing at tremendous strides, and any plane that was built was sure to about of date in six months. Only a rich company could keep pace with the changes in aviation and it would have been folly to allow small companies to offer their bids. Any man would have been able to buy a few second had planes and submit a bid which would have been lower than those of the larger concerns, but it is certain that the service, dependability, and safety of the mail transportation would have been endangered to a serious extent. Therefore, only...
Western Pacific has not earned its fixed charges for three years. Given a year's time, however, Proprietor James thinks he can pull it through alive. The 200-mile link he built in California to connect Western Pacific with Great Northern, completed in 1931, has not yet revealed its full traffic possibilities. The Dotsero cutoff west of Denver, to be finished this year, is expected to direct transcontinental traffic to the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific route (TIME...