Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds of thousands of Chinese coolies sweating under the guidance of Sir John Hope Simpson. Director General of Flood Relief. Sir John, when he visited the U. S. two months ago, told proudly how the 1,400,000 Chinese which the Chinese Government placed at his disposal piled...
...Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their autumn venture is as successful as the one just ending they may continue giving opera into the winter, offer the Metropolitan its only opposition since Oscar Hammerstein built his 34th Street theatre, drew such crowds that Otto Kahn paid him a million dollars to go away...
When Depression nipped him in 1930, Cyrus Stephen Eaton had realized only one of his many ambitions. Out of a tiny utility property picked up cheap in the 1907 panic he had built one of the largest power & light systems in the U. S. He had wanted to form the Second Biggest Steel Company. As the largest investor in the largest rubber companies he had planned to bring peace to that warring industry. But. above all. this youngish man from Pugwash. Nova Scotia dreamed of a Midwest industrial empire, vast, powerful, autonomous. His holding company was appropriately Continental Shares...
Anthony Adverse is a three-decker, picaresque-historical novel, crammed with enough people, action, scenery, philosophy, comedy, bloodshed, love and death to furnish a dozen books. Built to an old-fashioned design but modern specifications, it starts off like a Waverley Novel, soon gets beyond the purport of its traditional beginning. Like Tristram Shandy's, its hero makes a belated appearance, but when he does his fortunes hold the unwieldy tale together. In following him, however, the story loses track of some promising minor characters whose disappearance is disappointing, whose reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy...
...Carolina. After a job at Columbia University he lectured for two years at Vassar. One of his undergraduate listeners was Ann Hyde Andrews, whom he afterwards married. They went to Bermuda, spent five years there writing and farming. In an old house in Somerset Parish which Allen thinks was built by a retired pirate (its original name was "Felicity Haul"), he saw few tourists, lived cheaply, wrote most of Anthony Adverse's 500,000 words. Now back in the U. S., he is temporarily resting from his labors, looking for a place to live...