Word: construction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Works Emergency Housing Corp. has broad powers to "construct, re construct, alter and repair" apartments and houses, to lay out, build and maintain roads, parks, playgrounds, sewers, bridges, walls. For the present its policy will be not to compete with private building projects but to supplement them with loans, and, eventually, to turn its activities over to state, county or municipal housing authorities. The corporation's immediate objective is the acquisition of low-cost land "by private contract if possible, otherwise by eminent domain, which power is derived from the National Recovery Act." Unofficial estimates placed the corporation...
...hero riding the crest of his publicity. His best friend Captain Droste (Leslie Fenton) is sunk in the obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz shipbuilding firm to construct it. Claire Lennartz (Jill Esmond) also falls a victim to his persuasiveness until he starts on a non-stop flight around the world. Then she switches her affection to Droste who sails off in his completed seadrome. When Ellissen reappears, he concludes that Claire and Droste have been deceiving him, ignores the plaintive...
Along with the development of Oak Ridge station and the increased collection of plates, a collection numbering five hundred thousand, it became imperative to construct a fire-proof building for their storage. In 1931 the erection of the Astrophotographic Building of the Harvard Observatory began. It was dedicated in the spring...
Sirs: TIME'S notice, Bog War (April 3) gives an erroneous idea of the struggle in question. Paraguay has administered Chaco Boreal since Colonial days in her own right. Bolivia was only able to construct chain of small forts owing to domestic troubles in Paraguay during last 30 years, penetrating slowly into undisputed Paraguayan Zone recognized as such by treaties signed by themselves, by U. S. and by the Argentine Republic. Bolivia has never cultivated or owned an inch of ground in that region. Bolivian authorities' object in claiming Chaco is only apparently obtention of outlet on river...
...American Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity plans to construct a social center for American students in Paris. The building will be of a grandeur hitherto unexampled in its field, for the site is the Chateaubriand Estate and its architect will be taken from a present employment in Rheims Cathedral. Every feature of American luxury has representation, including the swimming pool and the ubiquitous cafeteria, in what is apparently a very thorough and a very sincere attempt to transplant the homeland with its virtues and its faults intact...