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...signature, bought some surplus Army barracks, and built a school annex housing a library, cafeteria and home economics classroom. While paying off the debt with proceeds from the cafeteria and athletic events concessions, Mallory borrowed again to buy lumber from an abandoned Army hospital, used it to construct a science and industrial arts building costing $11,000. Then in 1957, to solve the housing shortage that repels teachers from rural areas, Mallory again cannibalized the Army hospital and built a $72,000 "teacherage" with apartments renting for a maximum of $60 a month. Last Installment. Down went Buffalo...
When James denies that consciousness exists, he is deploring the word as an empty construct intended to justify belief in the ultimate duality of experience. He denies that the word "consciousness" denotes an entity, and he protests against viewing experience as dual in any absolute sense...
...eventually intends to construct two residential Houses on the property and use the rest for taxable apartment buildings, commercial structures, and an office buildings...
...Liberal Party, and mastered his new role. "His trouble," says Liberal Frontbencher Jack Pickersgill, "was that he wanted to solve the Government's problems for them." It was typical of Pearson that in seeking solutions, he called a thinkers' conference of "liberally minded Canadians" before trying to construct a new electoral platform. Slowly he rebuilt the party, collected the "Pearson team"-a brainy, intensely loyal shadow cabinet, including some of the young Liberals who propelled him into the party leadership. "There is a Pearson mystique in Canada," says a colleague, "that is something like the Stevenson cult...
...bought or built three shipyards in Holland and, expanding abroad in a pattern rare in the shipbuilding industry, three others in Ireland, Norway and Brazil. This week he arrives in Mexico to make final arrangements to build and operate a $60 million yard at Mazatlán that will construct tankers for Pemex, Mexico's national oil company. Verolme has also moved into manufacturing engines, textiles, electrical equipment, boilers and tanks. He now employs 10,000 people and has annual sales of between $90 and $130 million...