Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architect for the Library, said last May that the financial problem could become critical. "Unless we can find more money, we'll have to build less," Pei said at the time...
Positive Control. A wealthy oil-industry lawyer and longtime aviation buff, Rachal figures that his aircraft business needs extra cash more than he does. The company was founded back in 1948 by Al Mooney, who raised a small amount of capital to build the "Mooney Mite," a durable, single-engine one-seater. Trouble was, Mooney proved to be a better aeronautical engineer than businessman. Learning that the aircraft maker was hopelessly in debt, Rachal decided to take "a calculated risk." In 1954, on the night before Mooney planned to file for involuntary bankruptcy, Rachal and a brother-in-law, Norman...
...offshoots of the Mark 21. Encouraged by the company's rapid growth-over the past five years, annual sales have almost tripled, to $15.2 million-Rachal merged last month with Alon, Inc., a Kansas manufacturer of training aircraft. Moving into the twin-engine field, he has contracted to build a 300-m.p.h. turboprop executive plane designed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. And next year, in his most ambitious undertaking, Rachal will introduce the Mooney Mustang; a pressurized, single-engine private plane, it will cruise at 230 m.p.h. and altitudes...
...little change seems likely in existing travel patterns; last year 20,000 Americans visited Russia while only 3,000 Russians came to the U.S. But as a symbol of U.S.-Russian cooperation, the reciprocal flight should eventually stimulate two-way traffic on the bridges the U.S. is trying to build with Eastern Europe. Best guess is that the new service will be under way, barring some unforeseen spasm in U.S.-Soviet relations, by early spring...
Racing for the Bonus. The Mangla dam, first part of the complex to be completed, took a group of eight U.S. companies led by Guy F. Atkinson Co. of San Francisco less than six years to build at a cost of $510 million. The embankment stands 380 ft. high, is 11,000 ft. long, and holds 75 million cu. yds. of dry earth and rock. It is the world's fifth largest earth-filled dam and has the largest-capacity spillway, discharging 1.2 million cu. ft. of water per second, four times as much as Niagara Falls. Five...