Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salaam into East Africa's busiest port, open up a massive, uninhabited southern region that is known to contain valuable coal deposits. Besides, Nyerere would like to break his own dependence on the East African Common Market, now dominated by Kenya and Uganda. "We want to build this railway line," said Kaunda. "We do not only want to build it, we have decided to build...
...spreading." Little more than 5% of all metropolitan traffic in most cities is bound for the downtown area; most of it is skirting the city. And for such as New York and San Francisco, the answer lies mainly in more mass transit facilities (although New York is preparing to build a 2.5-mile Lower Manhattan crosstown expressway; estimated cost: $100 million a mile). In San Francisco, where the city board of planners have refused since 1958 to allow any freeways to be built, the 75-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) automated system of trains running at 90-sec. intervals...
...destroyed world. It filled a lot of bellies and the pockets of countless profiteers. In 1947, President Truman, still answering fire alarms, rushed arms and aid to Greece and Turkey. A year later, not thinking primarily in terms of economic programs for development but only of strategies to build strong European allies against Communism, he set in motion the Marshall Plan, which eventually cost $13 billion and is everywhere accounted a triumph. Out of all this experience flowed Point Four's technical-assistance goals, and suddenly the U.S. was in the foreign aid business for sure, without ever asking...
...National Disgrace." Both the information explosion and the population explosion have forced libraries of all kinds to expand and to build anew at a spectacular rate, often with striking esthetic effect (see color pages). U.S. colleges alone more than doubled their annual library-building outlay, from $21 million to $58 million, between 1957 and 1962, and spent a total of $211 million. In the succeeding six-year period, from 1963 through 1968, they will have tripled that amount to $650 million. The nation's largest library, the Library of Congress, has just renovated its main reading room...
Comic-Strip Shaw. For 23 years on the Tribune, Cassidy not only criticized the cultural world of Chicago; to a large extent, she ran it. She helped persuade Conductor Fritz Reiner to take over the Chicago Symphony (1953-62), and she helped build up the estimable Chicago Lyric Opera. When she liked something -or someone-she lavished compliments. She was one of the first to praise and promote Tennessee Williams. Reviewing the 1944 world premiere of The Glass Menagerie, she wrote: "It is honest, tender, tough and brilliant...