Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect Akihito on his daily passage to the exclusive Peers' School would have required whole battalions of police to line the streets. The Imperial Household totted up the cost, found it would be cheaper to build a new schoolhouse next to the Palace grounds. They did-complete with twelve classrooms, auditorium, laboratories, music hall, handicraft room, gymnasium, library, offices, private dining and sitting rooms for the august youngster. This week for the first time, the son of the son of the Sun, with shining morn ing face, romped across the Palace grounds, across one public street, to school...
...vast are the Orient oceans, so wide the trade routes leading over them to Dairen and Vladivostok, that any airtight blockade of Germany's Asian door is unthinkable. The distance across Siberia (6,000 miles), plus the fact that the Reds are hustling to build electrical, steel and shipbuilding industries in Eastern Siberia, gave Mr. Maisky's oath a ring of honesty...
Chief financiers of Negro health programs are the U. S. Public Health Service and the Rosenwald Fund for Negroes, established in 1917 by Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Chicago. Since 1928, the Fund has given $1,250,000 to build Negro hospitals,* train doctors and nurses, help out the two Negro medical schools-Howard in Washington, Meharry in Nashville...
...sick Negroes in New Orleans was the halls of ancient Charity Hospital, where patients slept two and three in a bed. And there was not a hospital a Negro doctor could practice in. In 1931 the Rosenwald Fund, the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches started a fund to build a hospital for New Orleans' 130,000 Negroes. Cotton Merchant Edgar Bloom Stern, son-in-law of Julius Rosenwald, boomed up a campaign for more money. In a town where only two charity campaigns had reached their quota in 15 years, Mr. Stern got $200,000 from white citizens...
...freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly he delivers lectures to persuade Midwest businessmen to scrape up the average $10,000 needed to build a locker plant. Some sales points in his favor...