Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City, sweating out the most serious water shortage in a century, was chided by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall last week for being "obviously laggard" in meeting the crisis. With all its reservoirs on the rocks, it was clearly too late to rush out and build new ones; in any case, there was no prospect of rain to fill them. Instead, the city reacted with a characteristic blend of hoopla, voodoo and Micawberism...
...notice was short and most sent regrets. Unfazed, Johnson paid eloquent tribute to Hoover as a "big man," a "good man," and "above all a devoted and honest and compassionate man." And, speaking of national monuments, Johnson announced one of his own. The University of Texas will build a library in Austin to house his papers, in addition will establish a Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute of Public Serv ice. The library will sprawl over at least 150,000 sq. ft., and thus will be by far the biggest presidential library of them...
...Governors, mayors and others from the region, Johnson said that the nation has "lingered too long under the impression that desalting sea water is a far-out and a far-distant goal," announced his determination "to make the great breakthrough before 1970." The Administration's target is to build plants, within five years, with a daily capacity of 100 million gallons each for the nation's biggest cities, as well as 10 million-gallon plants for smaller communities by 1968. "Edge of Disaster." The President also announced a $4,000,000 water-resources study to cover the area...
...appliances, and 250 companies are competing for an anticipated $1.5 billion in sales this year. Last week Chicago's Sunbeam Corp., one of the largest U.S. makers of small appliances, showed how strong the trend has become by announcing record quarterly sales of $44 million and plans to build its third new plant this year...
...This society has not known massive economic growth in the last 35 years except as aided greatly by hot or cold war," he said. President Johnson lacks "the guts to build a peacetime economy in the United States," he declared...