Word: construction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defferent parts of the university are machines and mechanics able to construct anything from high-power electro magnets to the smallest of glass tubing. The Maintenance Ships next to Dunster House contain all the equipment needed to keep up the University, while out of their own resources the scientific departments build some of the finest and most complicated devices found anywheres...
...group of financiers who back Major Robertson is headed by Washington's famed Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall, whose other sporting venture is the Boston Redskins (football). To construct the track in record time they hired Engineer Mark Linenthal, who built Boston's Suffolk Downs horse-race track, physically perhaps the best in the U. S., in less than 60 clays. Last week Engineer Linenthal's job, started in June, was practically finished...
Alphabet Aid. To help farmers in this crisis nearly the whole alphabet of the New Deal will go into the field. WPA will pay an average of $40 to over 100,000 relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children...
...applied to the Cathedral Chapter forthwith for stained glass commissions, was investigated, put in charge of all the Cathedral's glass. Drawing on his exhaustive theoretical knowledge, Lawrence Saint tried to construct an oil-pressure glass furnace at Huntingdon Valley, got nothing more than a sinister blast of smoke & flame which alarmed his neighbors. Such technical difficulties were soon smoothed by professional advice, and Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder...
...declined to let any technicality stand in the way of their right to sue, declaring: "We should not seek to find means of avoiding ruling on a constitutional question." The second question, he declared, was whether Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals (whence the debated power line leads) was legally constructed. Both because it was built under Wartime laws to provide power for making explosives and because it was designed to improve navigation, the Federal Government had been entitled to construct it. Therefore the dam was not illegal. Third question was whether the Government had the right to sell power created...