Word: needed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineer) : "All these projects will probably require an expenditure of upwards of one billion dollars within the next four years. It comprises the largest engineering construction ever undertaken by any government. It involves three times the expenditure laid out upon the Panama Canal. It is justified by the growth, need and wealth of our country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army of men should so far as practicable be adjusted to take...
...definitely accept your challenge, and will certainly meet you, God willing, face to face. . . . The place where this is done is quite immaterial, as it is vindication before the whole nation that you need and not the opportunity to establish an alibi merely before the Calvary congregation...
Naturally U.S. motor men are vexed by the motor quota system, just as are Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...
...Aluminum Co. technicians. Sheet metal fabricators might be shouting success about their metal office and home furniture. But the public really wanted wood, declared the furniture men. So Aluminum Co. simply went into furniture manufacture. First products to be exploited are office chairs-"easy chair comfort when you need it most." The material (upholstered) is as stout as mild steel and much lighter. The chairs, and other furniture already on sale, are coated in the exact grain of wood-mahogany, walnut, oak. When professional furniture manufacturers adopt aluminum (bought from Aluminum Co.) the company's executives will be happy...
Jack Dempsey, conqueree of Gene Tunney, left the realm of sock for the Manhattan world of buskin last week. With his wife, Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, he began rehearsing The Big Fight, drama. David Belasco will lend a directing hand. Said Dempsey: "The regular actors won't need to take to cover for a while...