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Word: steele (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting, Monday, the Harvard Corporation voted to permit the Athletic Association to fill the open end of the Soldiers Field Stadium with permanent steel stands and to replace the wooden stands which cover the track inside the enclosure during the football season with temporary steel structures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM TO HAVE PERMANENT STANDS | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...decision to erect the steel stands ends a problem which has been current for two years since the temporary wooden structures were condemned by the Building Commission. Since then three alternatives have been open to the Athletic authorities, namely: to fill in the open end with concrete stands; to erect temporary steel structures; and to build permanent steel stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM TO HAVE PERMANENT STANDS | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

Upon investigation, it was found that the cost of erecting a concrete structure would involve too great a cost since the seats at the open end are undesirable. Bolted temporary steel stands were also found impractical inasmuch as the cost of erecting them and removing them would amount to about $40,000 annually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM TO HAVE PERMANENT STANDS | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...corporation and resigned all my directorates. ... I sold every share of stock I owned in every national bank, trust company or other banking institution. I then owned and I now own a substantial amount of stock in the Gulf Oil Corp., the Aluminum Co. of America, Standard Steel Car Co. and other business corporations, but in every case my holding is very much less than a majority of the voting stock of such corporations. . . . My active connection with them was severed in 1921 as completely as if I had died at that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Nipper-Snapping | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...direction. Practically all the field is grass-covered. That permits comfortable landings and takeoffs, except in rainy weather. Then the planes tear up the sod. To remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airports | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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