Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychologists call it Schizoidmaniacism, but John William Warde, standing at the brink of death was just a peeved little boy. And like any severely spanked little boy, wanting sympathy, he took the colossal modern manner of calling attention to his troubles. That he should carry out his grand gesture, is the fault of the City Fathers who turned this little-boy prank into a three-ring circus, by roping off the streets and permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations...
...present slum buildings, if any. When any owner buys his land back, WPAsters will pull down the collapsible houses and put them up on another $1 plot, a job that can be completed in 24 hours. The up-&-down houses will be small (32 ft. by 20 ft.), have modern kitchens and bathrooms, but no gadgets. Declared enthusiastic Promoter Hall: "Our project is the only one in the world which will rehouse the same family in the same location at the same rent at no cost to the taxpayer...
...army on a "sensible" preparatory footing. Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting $23,000,000 for 230 modern, mobile anti-aircraft guns, with supplementary searchlights, target detectors, etc. etc. Another $30,000,000, he says, will give the U. S. enough anti-aircraft equipment for immediate requirements. Likewise, deficiencies in tanks, anti-tank guns, modern artillery, bombs and other ordnance were partly filled by the last Congress and should...
...Although modern freethinkers have gibed that the extant pieces, put together, would be as big as a battleship, in 1870 a French savant named Rohault de Fleury catalogued the known relics of the Cross, found that their total bulk was less than 4,000,000 cu. mm. By his calculations, the Cross measured...
...account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies. But his principal guide into the 5th Century Celtic twilight was surviving local legend...