Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raise the $7,500,000 he wants for improvements, assuring Jones of about 4% of the take. The Jones men, given office space among the plaster busts in a storeroom back of a medieval gallery, set out to bombard press and public with good reasons for helping the Met build. Among the best: 1) Taylor's showmanship (no admission fees, a junior museum, subway ads, fresh paint), has boosted annual attendance from about 1,000,000 in 1939, to over 1,800,000; 2) the Met now has some 500,000 art objects-many of them gathering dust...
...tired, broken man, at journey's end, made his final broadcast, almost twelve years to the day since, vigorous and full of hope, he had begun his presidency. In an unsure, dragging voice, Franklin Roosevelt told the nation: "I am confident . . . we can begin to build, under God, that better world...
...Labor Day "Dutch" Kindelberger got an idea. He was sitting on his front porch leafing through aviation magazines. The light planes he saw did not impress him, and he decided then & there to build one himself. He sketched his idea on the back of an envelope and turned it over to his engineers. They whipped up a prototype in time to give it to the boss as a Christmas present...
...about uranium to plan its work. At other stages it would survey and obtain effective control of all the world's uranium raw materials, set up its own research organization, take possession of the U.S. uranium-producing plants and uranium stockpiles (but not remove them from the U.S.), build and operate similar p'ants in other nations...
There was a fourth assumption, less obvious but more important: that the Allies would build up the industries of Germany's neighbors so they might replace the Reich in Europe's economy. Already the British, watching the weakening of their old German customer, were complaining. One day the Germans, now reduced to futile plots, might find more effective ways to complain...