Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things to gladden the new soldier boys. Colonel Pfeil & associates pish-tushed these reports, harrumphed that Army hostesses will be just as impregnable as ever. How many Colonel Pfeil needs will be determined when he knows how many new huts (each one generally has three hostesses) he has to build for incoming Guardsmen, conscripts and one-year volunteers...
...religion has been inseparable from his daily affairs and related to every phase of his life, and our age has made a sharp break with the past in this respect"; 2) "this secularization has occurred during the period that has witnessed the great effort in the West to build democratic states-one of the great anomalies of history, because democracy depends for its validity and permanence upon the sanctions of religion...
...Pittsburgh, U. S. consumer-server No. 1, Sears, Roebuck & Co., decided to build one of its largest stores. In spite of the heavy-industry boom, Pittsburgh builders gave Sears credit for the largest job undertaken there in a decade...
Then a friend named Venice Lamb, attorney, put up some money, helped him build a better mill. In 1923 and 1924 Steckel borrowed more money, took out five patents. In 1926 Cold Metal Process Co. was set up with Steckel president, $100,000 capital...
Matt Howard (Gary Grant) is a husky, handsome backwoodsman with a slight Scottish accent who woos and wins Jane Peyton (Martha Scott), a well-heeled Tory from Williamsburg, Va. Matt Howard takes his bride to the backwoods, where together they raise a family of three, build an inappropriately ornate house, try to reconcile their clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures...