Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third plan is to erect permanent steel stands which would be left standing during the entire year. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbot has prepared a set of drawings illustrating each plan, which will be consulted at the meeting...
...with the aging dignity of the Waldorf-Astoria, the hotel was taken over by Waldorf-Astoria, Inc., of which General T. Coleman du Pont was a director. It is this corporation which last week sold the property to the Bethlehem Engineering Corp. The new owners stated that they would erect, on the Waldorf-Astoria site, a 50-story office building...
...streets will be cut through the three blocks, parallel with Fifth Avenue, one of them leading to the rear doors and ramps of the Opera. Along these new streets, and through all the rest of the property, Mr. Rockefeller will erect new buildings for old (skyscrapers, hotels, stores, apartments). And the new streets will be developed as the finest and most exclusive shopping district in the world...
Constantinople may soon be the Detroit of the Orient. For the Turkish Government has granted to Henry Ford a 25-year concession by which he may erect a Constantinople plant for assembling automobiles, trucks, tractors, planes. Ford must use Turkish coal, Turkish workmen...
...Spring of 1902 the necessary subscriptions to insure the $5,000,000 required to purchase the land and erect the buildings of the School had been secured J. P. Morgan '89 gave over a million dollars for the erection of three of the five buildings as a memorial to his father once a merchant of Boston; John D. Rockefeller gave a million dollars which forms part of the Permanent endowment; Mrs. Collis P. Huntington of New York and David Sears of Boston each gave a memorial building for laboratory uses...