Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four. The figures are life-sized head-and-torso, with paper-and-glue eyeballs inserted from the rear of the framework, hair made of scissor-fringed strips of the London Daily Mail, and a final facial of thin paste and watercolor. Each unclad figure took two days to build...
...past, only to be confronted later with the familiar due bills of heavier manpower commitments, steeper costs and higher casualties. Nonetheless, one of the most exhaustive inquiries into the status of the conflict yet compiled offers considerable evidence that the weight of U.S. power, 21 years after the big build-up began, is beginning to make itself felt. Within the next 18 months or so, White House officials maintain, the increasing impact of that strength may bring the enemy to the point where he could simply be unable to continue fighting...
...projects on which the company had been pinning its hopes for re-entry into the commercial airframe business, a field that it left (except for business jets) in 1962, when it rolled out the last of 170 turboprop Electras. The No. 1 target was the Government-supported program to build a U.S. supersonic transport. When its SST hopes crashed last...
...Hughes Aide Robert Maheu carried a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It was Hughes's first utterance for publication in seven years. "I have," said Hughes, "heard of plans to enlarge Las Vegas' McCarran Field." Instead, Hughes suggested, it might be a good idea to build a new airport far ther from town. Then Las Vegas might "just barely turn out" to be the southwestern center for the U.S.'s supersonic transport planes of the 1970s...
While state officials hoped that the Hughes statement meant that he was about to build a rumored industrial center at Vegas, Federal Aviation Agency officials were quick to warn that to move McCarran away from the city would be a mistake. Then came an other surprise-a second statement from Hughes, in which he predicted that Las Vegas could eventually grow to the size of Houston. If this happens, said Hughes, "the present location of McCarran Field would be approximately comparable to having the airport for Los Angeles located on Wilshire Boulevard at the Miracle Mile...