Word: construct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armies of unemployed encamped in Potomac Park, the President is ready. Under a careful scheme and picked leaders he organizes them into a National Reconstruction Corps, on the Federal payroll. As labor battalions on public works they reclaim land in the West, construct power dams in the Midwest, build highways in the East. Army discipline jacks up the workers' morale. Family allowances deducted from their wages care for their wives and children. So successful is N. R. C. that its principles eventually alter the whole character of U. S. organized labor...
Stopping at the larger cities of the United States in its nation-wide publicity campaign, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer trackless train, which has taken two years to construct and which contains a complete motion picture studio and sound equipment projector "on wheels," will come to Harvard Square this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...
Amid much political jubilation on both sides of the border the U. S. and Canada last July signed a treaty to construct a $543,000,000 seaway along the St. Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic (TIME, July 25). Last week Senator Borah and his Foreign Relations colleagues sat down to hear what was wrong with this pact. In five days, opponents of its ratification piled up such a mountain of objections that even its friends admitted it had little chance to get through the coming short session...
...Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made a political issue...
...Dirigibles can be constructed and utilized properly only in the Soviet Union. No capitalist country can construct such craft on a large scale. Even the United States, with its great financial and technical resources, carries out its dirigible construction on a handicraft scale, producing only one or two ships yearly. . . . It would not be worth our time and money were we to undertake dirigible building at the American rate...