Word: construction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered...
When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...
...discussion was a California-Hawaii line served by two dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin might construct after delivering their two Navy ships...
Last week famed Remington Rand Inc., alert typewriter folk of Buffalo, shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...
Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...