Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour has sounded when Paraguay must definitely withstand the invader. Our superior race will throw the invader back across the frontier and reconquer that which is ours. ... As before, when Paraguay gave the world an example of astonishing vigor and valor, so now we must demonstrate that our race retains these virtues of our fighting forefathers. We must repeat history...
...Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show in Showboat. He told...
...building code and taxing laws which beset it." In measuring how far the housing industry has lagged behind the Industrial Revolution, FORTUNE found that whereas the $5,000 automobile of 1911 now sells for $2,000, the $20.000 house of 1911 still sells for $40,000. Pointing out the frontier still to be crossed, FORTUNE concluded that "if the industry could build a good house to sell at $4,800, it would add 60% to its small-house sales in its present market. ... If the industry could build a good house to sell at $3,600. it would double...
...frontier has not been totally neglected. There have been stirrings indicative of the application of science and scientific methods to shelter just as there have been to transportation. In Europe especially architects have been studying the efficiency of the home as a home in addition to cost-saving devices in building it. Many architects in the U. S. have tackled the problem individually. Housing developments such as Sunnyside. L. I., have realized the savings resultant from large-scale building. A special committee of United States Steel Corp. has studied steel houses. American Rolling Mill Co. sees a future when steel...
Last week announcement was made of a new company which will provide cheap, efficient, attractive homes at prices which will cross the frontier of the. low-salaried worker. In scope as well as in name, General Houses, Inc., will resemble the highly-articulated automobile company which caters to all classes. First statement about the new company and its purposes was made in the July issue of FORTUNE...