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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope that the time will come when all weapons of war are done away with." The Commander said a few words concerning the financial practicality of salvaging sunken submarines: "A ship such as the S-51 costs in the neighborhood of three million dollars to construct; the cost for salvaging, allowing four-hundred thousand dollars for the reconditioning of the craft, is enough below this amount to make it worth while...
...fifty-fifty basis, in order to have someone who could keep the course up during the winter and summer months, when the University would have little use of it. The other is to have someone make a gift of a tract of land large enough to construct a course on; then the University could probably build...
...house in the country. The first act exhibits the difficulties of packing up and moving out. The second act exhibits the difficulties of unpacking and moving in. In the last act they sell the house. The result suggests that a few capable character actors employed two docile writers to construct a drama in which there would be a part for each. They wring considerable laughter out of dried up situations...
...those communities that are urging, through paid magazine advertisements, industries to locate within their corporate limits, Atlanta, Ga., last week was the most jubilant. The Chevrolet Motor Co. had decided to construct a $2,500,000 branch assembly plant in Atlanta;* and Chevrolet President William S. Knudsen had addressed an eminently quotable phrase to the Atlanta Industrial Bureau: "A plant in your city became not only a possibility, but a necessity...
...witness in many occasions of your soldiers' deeds in San Domingo. In less than three years, more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these politicians resulting from your influence. In consequence, a revolution starts, and then you call...