Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Construct a 43-mile bulkhead motor highway, part parkway, part boulevard well above high-tide line the length of the sandspit from Fire Island State Park to Southampton...
...three years (1898-1901) "Old Joe," through secret emissaries traveling between London and Berlin, tried to construct an alliance of the British and German Empires. But Kaiser Wilhelm II would not concede Britain naval supremacy, and Foreign Minister Prince von Bülow insisted that Germany could yield nothing which would undercut her "destiny to rule the world...
With total assets of but $2,563,208 and a net for the past fiscal year of only $100,427, K. P. L. & G. is still a puny bubble in the ballooning natural gas business. But it asks FPC for permission to construct a $21,470,000 line (financed by a $20,000,000 RFC loan) from the Hugoton fields in southwestern Kansas through unexploited territory across Nebraska and the Dakotas into northwestern Minnesota. If permission is granted,* the company expects to sell 13,623,080,000 cu. ft. for $3,024,447 in the first year of operation...
...clothes, sat tatting when they should have been minding the children. The young people played croquet and practiced to be mediums. James Prince won all but Isaiah and the oldest Templers to his belief in Hunger-ology, Care-ology, Womb-ology. By the time he came to construct a Machine Messiah according to the directions of Benjamin Franklin and the Association of Electricizers, the children were quarreling and no one in the Temple was working. The Machine was a complicated tangle of magnets, coils and rods. "Good 'Lantic Ocean," ejaculated the neighbors, "what a contraption!" James Prince...
...House Naval Affairs Committee last week set May 16 as the day it will begin hearings on Representative Emanuel Celler's Pan American Broadcasting Station Bill. This measure would: 1) authorize the Navy Department to construct and operate a $700,000 Government broadcasting station (with $50,000 for annual maintenance) with power and equipment adequate not only for short wave broadcasting to South America but for the whole U. S.; 2) instruct the Commissioner of Education to provide programs of national and international interest, running the full educational and entertainment gamut covered by commercial broadcasters...