Word: frontierisms
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...building code and taxing laws which beset it." In measuring how far the housing industry has lagged behind the Industrial Revolution, FORTUNE found that whereas the $5,000 automobile of 1911 now sells for $2,000, the $20.000 house of 1911 still sells for $40,000. Pointing out the frontier still to be crossed, FORTUNE concluded that "if the industry could build a good house to sell at $4,800, it would add 60% to its small-house sales in its present market. ... If the industry could build a good house to sell at $3,600. it would double...
...frontier has not been totally neglected. There have been stirrings indicative of the application of science and scientific methods to shelter just as there have been to transportation. In Europe especially architects have been studying the efficiency of the home as a home in addition to cost-saving devices in building it. Many architects in the U. S. have tackled the problem individually. Housing developments such as Sunnyside. L. I., have realized the savings resultant from large-scale building. A special committee of United States Steel Corp. has studied steel houses. American Rolling Mill Co. sees a future when steel...
...advice, M. Herriot continued, shows among other things that if the present Reparations burden on the German railways were wiped out by cancellation their fixed charges would be reduced so much below the fixed charges borne by French railways, that German goods could be delivered from producer to the frontier at far cheaper rates than corresponding French goods...
Thus once again flared up the everlasting issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...
Under General Nakamura troops had pushed down the Sungari River to within 30 miles of the Amur River which at that point is the frontier. Eastward from Harbin and westward from Harbin other Japanese columns advanced out along the arms of the Chinese Eastern, which touch Russian territory at each extremity. Mysteriously a Japanese troop train was blown up on the C. E. R., 40 Japanese killed, 100 wounded...