Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Banking & Currency Committee, and said: "People like you and you and you and you-most of you do not represent the people. You represent the manufacturers . . . where is this democracy?" He would throw every last black-marketeer in jail. There aren't enough jails, a Senator suggested. "Build more jails," retorted Citizen Saccocio...
Tilda Thamar, blonde, green-eyed Argentine cinemactress, arrived in Miami to build up a little hemispheric good will, lost no time buckling down to work (see cut). Her name-around-the-house: Countess Toptani. Her husband's cousin: Albania's ex-King Zog. Among her distinctions: quadrilinguality...
...covering his bill-collecting rounds on the double, he saved time to toughen up his feet with twelve-mile runs in Peloponnesian stone quarries. His family made sacrifices to build him up: "Sometimes I eat meat, my wife eat peas." When he arrived in Boston, sportswriters regarded him as a nice feature-story subject, but no one thought he had a chance against defending champion Johnny Kelley or Montreal's three-time winner, Gerard Cote...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $9,000,000 to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., to build a $19,000,000 plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...
...Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," tore himself away from his mistresses long enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building...