Word: planting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With $700,000 on hand for the building of the long-anticipated athletic plant and the prospect of losing $250,000 of it if work is not begun by February, the necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances...
...less than a week the outcome will be in the lap of the gods and all Harvard supporters. Mr. Bingham has proved that he has the courage of his convictions, and has a right to expect unanimous support in his struggles with the elusive new plant. The walls, rising brick on brick, will soon lend tangibility to a cause which heretofore has suffered from uncertainty...
...funds are available. The committee feels that the need for the new swimming pool is too urgent to hold up the plans longer, since the funds on hand are already sufficient to complete that section of the building. At present $300,000 remains to be raised if the proposed plant is to be completed. Two annonymous donors have already provided $700,000 which is sufficient for all but the fourth floor of this athletic building which has long been one of the University's greatest needs...
Constantinople may soon be the Detroit of the Orient. For the Turkish Government has granted to Henry Ford a 25-year concession by which he may erect a Constantinople plant for assembling automobiles, trucks, tractors, planes. Ford must use Turkish coal, Turkish workmen...
...cover the construction of what is known as the Gray beam. In 1904, one Henry Gray took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted a patent infringement. Ensued a Bethlehem-U. S.Steel controversy which...