Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summoned, did not appear to testify. Senator Black indicated that he would be glad to question Mr. Brown if Mr. Brown would waive immunity. Mr. Browrn made no move. He remained in Manhattan where he is board chairman of Hudson Tubes, the sub-river line William Gibbs McAdoo built between Manhattan and Jersey City. Other witnesses told the following tale to the Committee...
...Flimsily built, most of Tokyo and every other Japanese city is so much pasteboard and matchwood, ready to be kindled by incendiary bombs. Fire is the worst part of every Japanese earthquake. Not being able to count on an earthquake, "Klim" Voroshilov has built up one of the great air armadas of the world. According to Britain's ablest writer on war books for civilians, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart: "In case of war with Japan, Voroshilov . . . is said to be favoring the idea of conducting it purely by air action. If so, he will have the credit...
...wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...
...meeting of the Third Estate was held on a tennis court. In Chicago in the last six months two memorable meetings have been held in a gymnasium. The meeters have been the stockholders of Armour & Co. Last week in the big brick building which the late J. Ogden Armour built to make strong Armour meatmen stronger, the stockholders completed the revolution they began last autumn...
Ambitious Jules Remains is working on a scheme as big as Honoré de Balzac's. His slowly growing super-novel, Men of Good Will, is being built to specifications to contain a whole city - 20th Century Paris. Goggling onlookers, seeing the size of the completed foundations, may now have some idea of the extent of the building, but Architect Romains, though he admits his construction will cover a lot of ground, still refuses to post his blueprints or release a front elevation. Before putting down tools for this section he thanks spectators for their patient interest, promises that...