Word: erects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earliest of the Administration's housing programs was the set-up whereby PWA would advance money to private limited dividend corporations to erect model housing communities. Results have been almost grotesque. Two projects are under way in New York City, one in The Bronx called Hillside, one in Queens called Boulevard Gardens...
...statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
...procession moved off, Marie of Rumania gave out almost at once, had to be whisked off in the Ford. Marie of Jugoslavia, though suffering from gallstones and ulcerated teeth, trudged with visible effort the whole three miles. Young King Peter walked erect, alert but so closely surrounded by a protective square of Jugoslavian officers that at times he could not be seen...
Behind brilliant troops and massed bands, some 20,000 welcomers jam-packed the streets around the dock. Bright with fluttering pennons, French warships crowded the harbor. Airplanes droned overhead. Slowly the Jugoslavian warship drew in and docked. Erect and grave, King Alexander marched with his entourage down the gangplank. Minister Barthou stepped forward, smiling. The two men shook hands, chatted a moment. Officials, aides, secret service men clustered around them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into...
...alone reveal the method, President Bohn would not even name the researchers who developed it. But he was eager to tell how he had started to build a $50,000 "pilot plant" in Detroit to iron out minor production kinks, and how he would later erect a big producing plant in Utah, which has the most extensive alunite deposits in the U. S. The Utah plant, said President Bohn, would bring his investment in the alunite process close to $10,000,000. That was an impressive figure, and observers saw no reason to question...