Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene of the Great Commoner's last battle and death. Then, with $1,000,000 in donations and hopes of an eventual $5,000,000 endowment, the University started out in the sombre brick high school building in which John Thomas Scopes once taught Evolution. It has since built dormitories and an administration hall. Bryan admitted students of any religion or sect but its faculty and officers were caused to sign an eight-point credo of such stout Fundamentalism as to make even the Apostles' Creed seem liberal. Bryan put on its letterhead: "An Institution which Recognizes Revelation...
...business to Allis-Chalmers, resumed its old name, began to make money. Profits jumped from $1,528 in 1930 to $1,205,000 in 1931, $1,328,000 last year. Much of this came from contracts from U. S. Lines for the Manhattan and the Washington, largest liners ever built in the U. S. Mr. Cord's first ship, the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa, now on the ways, will be New York Shipbuilding's 407th...
...powered by current from wires overhead) which draw trains of ten or 15 "freight cars" each four feet wide and twelve feet long-carrying about as much goods as a fair-sized motor truck. The freight tunnel system, begun in 1901, was mainly an accident; the first tunnels were built by an independent telephone company which went on the rocks. Reorganization followed; Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman put in new capital. The system was enlarged, 49 connections made with different freight terminals of Chicago's numerous railroads. The tunnel system was set at work distributing and collecting package...
...founded Union Trust Co. to take care of Pittsburghers' estates. He backed his young nephew, William Larimer Mellon, in the oil business. John D. Rockefeller was driving all rivals to the wall. The Mellons planned, then built in haste a pipe line from their wells in Western Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to the Delaware River. Rockefeller, who had stopped others, could not stop this swift, calculated move. Two years later the Mellons sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew...
...race of fools." Presently, accompanied by a 14-year-old prostitute disguised as a boy, Julius was en route to London. In London he followed the success story formula. He worked as a baker's boy, bought out the bakery, turned it into a restaurant, opened another, built up his business until he had put "a chain around England." Meanwhile his prostitute died of consumption and Julius learned to like good living. He married a well-born Jewess named Rachel, had affairs with actresses until he was 50. After that his daughter, Gabriel, became his inamorata. When she fell...