Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Standley last week marched briskly in upon the House Appropriations Committee he was able to report 54 ships actually under construction, 22 from regular naval appropriations, 32 more from Public Works money-in all 212,000 new tons of fighting machinery or more than twice the tonnage being built by Britain, six times the tonnage being built by Japan. When Admiral Standley walked out of the committee he had won that body's approval of a $286,000,000 Naval appropriation bill which provided not only 2,800 more seamen and 1,000 additional marines...
...present Japan has built enough ships to make up the quota allowed her in the London treaty; the United States and England have not yet done so. Whatever happens in the next year, war will not be the outcome; my country and yours will see to that by building up their fleets. It may, however, lead to very bad conditions in Japan herself...
...seems to me to be a move in the wrong direction, as I believe that our President has built up his tremendous popular following by the power of his voice, which radiates force, understanding, and a great human sympathy...
...carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed $3,000 to buy a one-half interest in a small lumber company. Lumber led to paper and paper to International Falls, where he organized his own bank, formed his own telephone company and, after James J. Hill refused to enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment agreements among newsprint makers as "restraints of trade." Last week when the banker regime in his old company pooh-poohed his libel suit, he said: "A $1 award means victory, vindication...
...which have nothing but the very limited precedent of the Minnesota mortgage case to support their findings. The sphere of law within which they operate does not now empower them to validate the important legislation of the NRA, and it will not do so until the Supreme Court has built a broad basis for the executive claims. The emergency basis of the Minnesota Mortgage decision is a trifling trump in a game so large, and so far reaching, as that which the President's compromise has set in motion. The alternative is to strike, while the emergency Iron...