Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason. In sulfurous editorials the News & Courier repeatedly attacked the Santee-Cooper River hydroelectric project, which pushing politicians set afoot to get $40,000,000 out of the New Deal for South Carolina (TIME, June 12). He described it as "a set-up of politicians without known qualifications to build and develop industrial plants," called it a project "shot through with extravagance and waste...
...superintendent will be in charge of 400 employees in his new capacity. A graduate of Vanderbilt University in 1915 and a construction engineer, he was first connected with the University when he helped build Wigglesworth Hall...
When Huey Long was elected in 1928, Lake Charles was still booming, had financed locally a $6,500,000 port improvement fund to build up its port, and Sam Jones was stumping for Al Smith in a pro-Klan district. When Huey Long was being impeached on 19 charges, including a plot to murder a legislator, Sam Jones was working in Lake Charles as assistant district attorney. When Long was making the Legislature of Louisiana a savage parody of democratic processes, packing the courts, building the Capitol, putting in roads, trapping his opponents, calling out the troops, and boasting, "There...
Ever since the U. S. Government began building big Bonneville Dam (potential capacity: 518,400 kilowatts) and bigger Grand Coulee Dam (1,890,000 kilowatts) on the nonindustrialized Columbia River, Northwesterners have wondered who was going to buy the power. Last Christmas they got an initial answer: Aluminum Co. of America contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant near Portland, buy 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville juice...
...social program ardently wooed the Negro vote, arguing that the New Deal's attention to Negro relief needs had actually operated to shunt Negroes out of normal productive enterprise into a status of a separate relief economy. A section on Housing demanded the stimulation of private enterprise to build 4,656,000 needed housing units...