Word: million
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...construction of the subway more than half a million cubic yards of material have been excavated. In the concrete construction 200,000 cubic yards of cement, 350,000 tons of crushed stone, and 7,000 tons of steel have been used between the bridge and the Murray street yards. The largest number of men employed on the work at any one time was 4,000, the average force being about...
...experts to be the finest and handsomest example of college architecture in eastern Massachusetts. It is on property which we bought from the Charles Eliot Norton estate-five acres altogether-and adjoins the land of the Harvard Divinity School. The building will cost about a quarter of a million dollars. For the time it will house the seminary completely, offering even dormitory facilities...
...Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, in a report to Congress, showed that the Treasury was empty and called for aid from the state banks. A loan of fifty million dollars was raised, which was of great aid to the government and served to bring the union bankers more closely together. Shortly afterward, when several increases of this loan had been made, a permanent system of national banks, under federal control, was established by the National Currency Act of 1863. The success of this measure was largely due to Mr. McCulloch, then Comptroller of the Currency. Secretary Chase at first disapproved...
...beginning. The University needs very urgently a completely new chemical plant for the instruction in elementary courses, as well as for research work in organic and industrial chemistry. At least $500,000 will be needed for these buildings, which should form a systematic and connected group, and another half-million will be necessary for their proper endowment...
...Copeland will give a reading of a number of scenes from "Macbeth" to be followed by a short story by O. Henry, the author of "Cabbages and Kings," "The Four Million," etc. in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock punctually. The reading will be open only to members of the Union...