Word: construction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comte de Bresson brought before Parliament a proposal to construct canals running from St. Nazaire, the French port, to Switzerland and linking up with the great Central European canals. If adopted the canal would afford continuous water traffic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, across France and along the Danube. The brain of Voltaire, famed cynic, philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great, grandfather of rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will...
...line was started by C. P. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific. Today the system includes a trunk line of 597 miles, with 58 miles of sidings in Guatemala and Salvador. It is planned to construct about 100 miles of new roads from Zacapa to Santa Ava, Guatemala, and to extend the lines to connect with properties of American corporations. With the 100-mile gap completed, the road will furnish a direct route from the east coast across Central America to Touseca Bay on the Pacific shore, where the U. S. Government already has concessions for the establishment...
...Socialist Deputies, aided by Radicals, fought a 21,000,000 franc subsidy to the Compagnie Générate Transatlantique to construct new liners. A motion for adjournment of the bill was defeated, 316 to 203. The bill dates from 1913, when 7,000,000 francs subsidy was approved by a convention between the Company and the French Government...
...building of new ships, not already under construction. The Committee deemed it unwise to construct even those types of ships not restricted by the Limitation of Armaments Treaty, on the grounds that it set a bad example to other nations...
...permanent value if offered as parts of one consistent scheme. To follow a figure formerly used, planks can be of real value only if serving as part of a structure, or of at least a scaffolding. Some such scaffolding as an aid to intellectual architecture the CRIMSON hopes to construct in the course of the next few weeks. Of necessity of a skeleton nature and weak in many points, it may offer one or two steps for future builders or at least something which it will be profitable to fear down...