Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vicksburg Contractor Michael T. Morrissey had testified that he happened to be passing Bilbo's "Dream House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo...
...sand & gravel dealer from Natchez, told the committee he had poured the concrete for the Dream House swimming pool, but had marked the $1,194.70 bill paid before he mailed it. Contractor M. T. Reed had contributed $3,500 to the Juniper Grove Baptist parsonage Bilbo was struggling to build, and had given the money to Bilbo. Contractor F. T. Newton had no idea what Bilbo had done with the $25,000 he had given him to back the unsuccessful 1942 senatorial campaign of handsome, languorous Mississippian Wall Doxey, now the Senate sergeant at arms...
Trusteeships. The Assembly brought into being a Trusteeship Council, replacing the old League of Nations mandate system. Nearly all the trusteeship drafts were carried by a vote of 41-to-6 with five abstentions. Russia & Co. voted against them for several reasons-mainly because a trustee can build air, military or naval bases in certain custodial areas without declaring them "strategic areas" -that is, leaving them out of the Security Council's purview and beyond reach of the veto...
Through the grant of a free port at Chilean Valparaiso, Perón got another thing he dearly wanted: an outlet on the Pacific. There Argentines planned soon to build port installations and a big meatpacking plant. Another result of the accord: a vehicular tunnel will be driven right through the Andes...
...civilization-haters. The cultures are primitive, but the lives of the individuals are anything but simple. Since they lack effective agriculture, they have to depend on nature's stingy gifts, laboriously gathering everything even faintly edible. They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith. They build brush dams across streams to trap fish. They pick up tiny seeds, break hard nuts with stones. They eat skunks, grasshoppers, alligators, armadillos...