Word: construction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conventional school building. It was put up as a pilot model by National Homes Corp., the nation's largest builder of prefabricated homes, in only 21 working days after its foundation was poured. Cost per classroom: $18,500. Conventional school buildings take from twelve to 18 months to construct, cost an average of $37,000 a classroom...
After liberating French troops knocked out the church again in 1944, a local committee headed by a lawyer, a manufacturer and the curé decided to save on building costs, construct the new church in reinforced concrete. Even in provincial Ronchamp, the name of the best architect for the job was obvious: Swiss-born Charles Edouard Jeanneret. world famous under his professional name, Le Corbusier,* as Europe's leading exponent of reinforced concrete...
Last week, in a brief special session, the Memphis city commission voted to construct a $100 million steam plant. TVA was notified that Memphis would not renew its contract in 1958. If it was a bluff, it was likely to be a costly one: President Eisenhower promptly ordered a review of Dixon-Yates that was seen as a first step toward terminating the contract...
...anywhere. In December, President Lowell announced that "the Corporation has given me permission to go ahead with plans on a $100,000 dining hall, to be located on the old church site at Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, but the Corporation does not intend to spend $100,000 to construct an empty hall. Do you men care for club tables...
...transport, and probably the chemical industry as well. Yet these measures everyone would have expected, from the Party's previous record. The Socialists have also had to make some new promises. Among them is a rather radical proposal on housing. The Conservative's policy of allowing private individuals to construct their own homes, instead of waiting their turn for publicly built ones, has succeeded moderately well. In order to outdo the Tories, Labourites have promised to urge that all houses rented for profit by individuals be purchased by local municipal authorities. The result would be equalized rents. They have also...