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...have a new Capitol -a summer-resort Capitol high up in the mountains, on the edge of a lake with good fishing, canoeing, hot and cold water, bellboy service. To design it, 85 youths were commissioned. They made preliminary sketches. Of these, five were chosen. They made complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby...
Last week Governor McLean of North Carolina and a group of "influential citizens" offered Mr. Borglum the cliff adjoining Chimney Rock for another memorial to the Confederacy. Mr. Borglum inspected, professed extreme pleasure. The spot chosen for the North Carolina memorial has long been a resort which has lately been "improved" and modernized with the addition of golf links, etc. With the appearance of Mr. Borglum's giant sculptures this spot will become indeed civilized, although situated in the ruggedest country. Special means for "drying" the great cliff wall will probably have to be taken since (at least...
...unfortunate that countries which had spurned direct taxation were being called upon to make good the resultant depreciation of their currencies, which, in turn, had contributed to the increase of their difficulties and decrease of their strength. But this was a lesson which should not be escaped by resort to debt cancellation...
With the stabilization of the mark on a gold basis, this fairyland of finance soon faded. The Stinnes heirs found themselves saddled with colossal industries, heavy debts-and no money. As a result, they have been forced to resort to the banks to keep going, and now on the bank's own terms for accommodation. The result is that the colossal concentration of industries once held in Hugo Stinnes' hands is now pasing to the large Berlin banks...
Outline a complete selling and advertising compaign for a resort house...