Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked how he came to be a weight lifting champion, Thomas said that he had been in a severe auto wreck his Freshman year in College, and had taken up weight lifting to build himself up from 90 pounds after a six-month stay in the hospital. He kept at the sport and this year plans to enter the national championships again...
Less than two years ago Mrs. Lottie Wolf, wife of Detroit's wiping-rag tycoon, hired Lipiec to build up a stable, gave him his big chance. The best way to get ready-to-run horseflesh in a hurry was to buy it on the race track's huge super-market-the claiming race...
...Army swept southeast through Bavaria, and the Allies squeezed Germany in two, they got part of their wish. The armies moved too fast for the planners in Washington. The cutbacks came in a downpour; in two weeks the Army ended a $200,000,000 ammunition program, dropped plans to build twelve tank plants, announced that Willow Run would close...
...more prepared to build 2.9 million houses a year than it was prepared in 1940 to build 50,000 planes a year. A national effort was required to accomplish the plane program, and the same will obviously be required for housing. As yet, the effort has not got under way. The required size of the effort has not even been recognized...
...work on housing is not pressed, the people who might live in them will be without homes, and the people who might build them will be without jobs—and so will many others. For there are factories today which cannot operate because there are no homes for workers, there are other factories which cannot be built if construction is too difficult or costly...