Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note of caution against "excessive optimism and excessive pessimism ... in the never-ending struggle for law and justice." There was another note of warning: "If we are going to build a regime of law among nations, we must struggle to create a world in which no nation can arbitrarily impose its will upon another nation. Neither the United States nor any other state should have the power to dominate the world. . . . As a great power ... we have a responsibility, veto or no veto, to see that other states do not use force except in defense of law. The United States...
...when two-year-old TIME moved here (for business reasons) in 1925. It was a good move for TIME. During the interval of our stay here and our return to New York City in 1927, TIME "caught on" nationally, gained the initial momentum which now permits us to help build Cleveland's international forum...
...largest industry, had turned out nearly 7,000,000 tons of paper products worth $700,000,000-and customers all over the world were clamoring for still higher production. Despite a lack of sheet steel (a shortage caused by U.S. and Canadian steel strikes), auto plants managed to build 178,000 cars and trucks, 3% above the average prewar production. And the pile of domestic and foreign orders was higher than ever...
...supersensitive pickup tube, four to five times brighter than its predecessor, makes candlelight do the job of a battery of floodlights; 2) construction of 44 new stations is expected to begin after FCC gives its ruling; 3) the Radio Manufacturing Association says that the U.S. is ready to build from 330,000 to 360,000 television sets...
Credit for selling the U.S. public on skiing in the early '30s belonged to no one man. Averell Harriman, as board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, had a hand in it. He persuaded his fellow directors that the U.P., hungry for prestige and passengers, should build a resort at Sun Valley. Hollywooders (including Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert and Darryl F. Zanuck) made it fashionable. Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson hired Austria's famed skier, Hannes Schneider, and spent $1,000,000 to build his home town, North Conway, N. H., into one of the East...