Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management Sun Shipbuilding became one of the biggest of its kind; money rolled in. Joe Pew married a Philadelphia girl, Alberta Hensel, quietly joined social life along the Main Line, raised a healthy brood, settled in swank Ardmore...
...Deal reform, but a ghost of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. When San Francisco got Federal permission to build Hetch Hetchy (in a national park), the enabling Raker Act made the condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul...
...record buyers are "name-conscious" to such a degree that for a few paltry dollars difference they won't descend to buying classical works rendered by competent but less famous musicians and recorded with slightly less fidelity. It feels that the new series will mean larger grosses and gradually build up public taste to a degree where they will go one step up to Red Seal...
...fought in the Chaco War. That invalidated the two other candidates. But General Peñaranda no sooner donned his sash of office than he began to claim democracy had been restored, to talk about how warmly he will "welcome" and "guarantee" foreign capital invested "to improve communications and build hydroelectric plants...
...merger of two impoverished old New Orleans schools, Congregationalist Straight College and Methodist Episcopal New Orleans University. The two church boards, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller General Education Board and leading New Orleans citizens, including Rosenwald Son-in-Law Edgar B. Stern, pledged $2,000,000 to build the new university, opened it in 1935. It was named for an old Virginia blue blood, Dr. James Hardy Dillard, who for 24 years had devoted himself to improving the South's Negro country schools...