Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skyscrapers. "They are already historical monuments, witnesses of a past epoch. . . . I cannot view them without sadness: they speak of a time when we thought the last war had been fought, when we believed in peace. Already they are slightly neglected; tomorrow, perhaps, they will be demolished. . . . To build them in the first place required a faith we no longer feel...
While politicians and diplomats twiddled their tongues, the bases bought with blood and fire continued to deteriorate. At Wake Island, undergoing its third build-up in five years (first by the U.S., then by the Japs, now by the U.S. again), there was not enough paint to protect the mushrooming Quonsets from the gnawing, salt-laden...
Cyclotrons were not all. Sweden was obviously planning to build a uranium-plutonium pile, for Parliament had been asked to appropriate $1 million for high-purity graphite, heavy water and other pile materials. No uranium had been mined as yet, but fairly large deposits had been found in central Sweden. They were low grade, containing less than half a pound of uranium per ton of ore. Swedish uranium would be expensive, but cost might be no barrier if richer deposits in luckier countries were kept away from the open market...
...Russian Government, painfully conscious of its atomic-bomblessness, had made Kapitza's name a national reassurance. "Don't worry," it comforted its people, "the great Kapitza will build you a bomb in no time." According to Russian reports and rumors, he was buzzing around like a June bug, supervising the building of cyclotrons, studying cosmic rays, taking full scientific charge of the Soviet's own Manhattan (or Moscow) Project. Generalissimo Stalin was said to have called him into his presence and offered him everything he needed...
Some new faces in old jobs last week: James E. Day, 40, well-tailored, Illinois-born investment broker, became president of the Chicago Stock Exchange. To get ready for the job, Jim Day helped build a dam in Arizona, made and lost a fortune in real estate, took a law degree, was vice president of the Exchange for two years. His plan for La Salle Street: get more Midwestern stocks...