Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind-the-scenes forces that have molded America's military muscle, none have been more influential-and few more mysterious-than California's Rand Corp., a private, nonprofit "think tank" located in a plain white building in Santa Monica. And of all the high-powered highbrows who have helped build Rand (for Research and Development), no one has been more effective than silver-haired, rough-featured Franklin R. Collbohm, 59, head of the organization since it was created under the patronage of Army Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold 20 years...
...What is needed now is not to accept and build upon popular misapprehensions about the scope of the decisions, but to point out the baseless-ness of those fears," to declared...
...perhaps put the Boeing Co. into its best historical perspective. Trippe recalled that as early as 1934 Boeing had drawn up plans for a four-engined bomber; the U.S. War Department turned it down as being too visionary. Boeing thereupon spent $275,000 of its own money to build the plane. During World War II, it became the famed B-17 Flying Fortress-the plane to which, said Trippe, "this republic owes more, perhaps, than any other in the history of aviation...
...expected to retire in a year or two, Sharp's hopes of succeeding him as Liberal Party leader partly hinge on his winning support among Gordon's followers. It was Gordon who originally proposed the bill against foreign banks. By carrying on with it, Sharp stands to build his party strength. Still, he has misgivings that the bill's retroactive provisions, which could force First National City Bank to sell 75% of its stock in its Canadian subsidiary, might damage Canada's high standing with the U.S. financial community...
...Albert and Victoria monstrosities. To be played without any break between the section, it has a tremendous capacity for becoming a longwinded, disorganized barrage of pomposity, sentimentality, and self-conscious melodrama. For the first four movements there was a sense of heaviness, as if the music could not build up any motive force of its own and got from one measure to the next only through the brute force of the players...