Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a new Capitol -a summer-resort Capitol high up in the mountains, on the edge of a lake with good fishing, canoeing, hot and cold water, bellboy service. To design it, 85 youths were commissioned. They made preliminary sketches. Of these, five were chosen. They made complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby...
...unfortunate that countries which had spurned direct taxation were being called upon to make good the resultant depreciation of their currencies, which, in turn, had contributed to the increase of their difficulties and decrease of their strength. But this was a lesson which should not be escaped by resort to debt cancellation...
With the stabilization of the mark on a gold basis, this fairyland of finance soon faded. The Stinnes heirs found themselves saddled with colossal industries, heavy debts-and no money. As a result, they have been forced to resort to the banks to keep going, and now on the bank's own terms for accommodation. The result is that the colossal concentration of industries once held in Hugo Stinnes' hands is now pasing to the large Berlin banks...
Outline a complete selling and advertising compaign for a resort house...
...Among other things, I enlarged my printing outfit and during the summers I took it to a resort in Maine and opened my own job office. At the same time I served as night clerk in one of the hotels. For a while I printed the menu at Memorial Hall and taught night school, and for two terms I worked in the Library. I mended shoes and repaired bicycles, and to this day a certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family...