Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build on any of the 103 lots still available in the area. There are two golf courses near by, and there is a club at the entrance to the point with a huge swimming pool and a sprawl of tennis courts. Most residents also keep a boat, which is docked in front of their homes...
...main features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
Half Don't Know It. By far the most common form of diabetes among the estimated 4,000,000 U.S. victims (half of whom don't know they have it) is the "mature onset" type. This develops in people who are over 40, of stocky build and overweight-but always hungry. This form, if severe, was once controlled by insulin and diet, and if mild, by diet alone. Now the milder cases do better with drugs added to diet...
...alone. Britain and France shared an exhibit of their supersonic Concorde, taking advantage of the lone air-transport realm in which the U.S. lags, pointed proudly to 47 orders already on the books for the still unbuilt plane. The French government seized the occasion to order Sud-Aviation to build 13 more of its twin-jet Caravelles, and France's Nord-Aviation showed off the twin-engined Transall cargo plane that it has developed with five German firms...
Prodded by this competition, 16 German steelmakers and The Netherlands' Hoogovens have joined forces to build a $60 million ore-concentrating plant, the first of its kind in Europe, at Rotterdam's Europoort industrial complex. By converting 15 million tons a year of ore from West Africa, South America, Canada and Scandinavia into 5,000,000 tons of concentrated pellets and barging it to inland mills, the combine expects to cut 20% off the cost of ore delivered to Ruhr furnaces. To keep their markets, the Germans feel they must put competitive prices ahead of national pride...