Word: construct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water, depreciating property values. New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to enjoin New York's garbage dumping as a public nuisance. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the city to stop its evil practice, but allowed it a "reasonable time" (yet to be fixed) in which to construct garbage incinerators. As of "no importance" the Supreme Court put aside New York's defense that the dumping took place beyond the three-mile limit and hence outside U. S. territorial jurisdiction...
...recently announced plans of the Harvard Corporation to construct a Memorial Chapel in honor only of the Harvard Alumni who died in the Allied Cause was warmly protested in a resolution adopted Sunday night and officially announced yesterday by the students of the Harvard Wesley Foundation. The students believe that if the proposed new chapel is to be built at all, it should be in honor of all Harvard Alumni who fought in the World War, regardless of which side they took...
...State of New York last week definitely decided to go into the hydroelectric power business on a scale as large as the U. S. at Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...
...like any other big business proposition, needs lots of advertising. In 1917 the U. S. Government discovered this fact when it set about drafting an army of 4,000,000 men and borrowing 20 billion dollars. To construct a publicity machine for the next emergency, the War Department last week commissioned William Hector Rankin, 53-year-old Manhattan advertising man, as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve corps...
Meanwhile Frank T. Crowe, hard-rock engineer who will superintend the actual construction of Hoover Dam, opened a Six Companies office at Las Vegas, Nev., the rail junction for the job. Then he proceeded across the mountain wastes to Black Canyon. Before Superintendent Crowe could start actual dambuilding, he had to do these things: 1) complete the 20-mile railroad from Las Vegas to Black Canyon rim over which all material must be lowered. 2) Construct Boulder City to house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down...