Word: constructions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
...Pulitzer race and set a U.S. speed record, until last week. After hundreds of hours of experimental flying-inverted, spinning, high speed-for which he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieut. Williams last year obtained the backing of air-minded tycoons in New York and Chicago to construct the Mercury, a waspish little projectile with a 24-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Packard motor, to compete for the Schneider Cup (world speed trophy for seaplanes) at Cowes, England. But the Mercury, too heavy for her lifting power, never got far from the Severn River off Annapolis where she was tested (TIME...
Small and practically impotent is the Federal Power Commission, set up in 1920, as an orphan agency to control billions of dollars worth of U. S. water power rights. Its job is to license power companies to construct plants along navigable streams, to check their investments, to regulate interstate power rates, to maintain govern-ment options to buy back licensed plants after 50 years. The nominal commissioners are the Secretaries of War, Interior & Agriculture. They sit about five hours a year. The actual work of the commission is carried on by Frank E. Bonner, its secretary, Charles A. Russell...
...Crawford, Instructor in Physics, and Theodore Lyman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, to endeavor to construct an amplifier for small direct currents...