Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zeus's Olympian family, crudely hacked out of oak and olive trunks, took possession of every sacred grove during the next four dark centuries (1100 B.C.-700 B.C.). But not until the Dorians began cutting down their oaks to build ships did marble and bronze bring immortality to their gods...
Long before the Bowditch men finish their work, Seabees will build six 75-ft. steel towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
...Commission had hoped to sell 1,000 to foreign buyers. But they have shown scant interest; they are building better ships of their own, many in the U.S. The Netherlands has contracted with U.S. yards to build 30; Brazil has started 14; Great Britain, Norway and Denmark are rebuilding their fleets as fast as possible. Nor is the Commission pinning its hopes on the tubby Libertys to capture the biggest share of world shipping...
What the U.S. needed was a superman like Paul Bunyan. Paul did a lot of sizable things. He dug out Lake Michigan to mix concrete in so that he could build the Rocky Mountains. In the winter of the Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...
...price has been the biggest problem. Mills, caught between rising costs and OPA ceilings on rough construction lumber, were concentrating on finished wood, where profits were higher. Yet rough construction lumber is what the U.S. needs most. Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt's program to build 2,700,000 houses alone calls for nearly eight billion board feet this year...