Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture blacker than it really is. Its dire predictions are based on the still unproved belief that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...
...Federal Reserve Board this week promised the public its first taste in over four years of the old American custom of installment buying. "Regulation W" (wartime consumer credit control) will be relaxed enough to remove all restrictions for the installment purchase of building and home repair materials. If the materials are to be had, the average man can once more build all the new houses or buy all the new bathrooms he can afford, "on time...
Speculating, as beaten men will, on the consolations of adversity, Tokyo's Mainichi observed: "According to the notions held heretofore no great power could exist that was not a strong power. Yet . . . can we not . . . build up for the first time in the history of mankind a great power without arms?" It added: "Inevitably the theory and production method of the atomic bomb will have to be made public before long...
...said that the company was "sympathetic to the enlightened and wise guidance of His Imperial Majesty . . . and his Government toward the destiny, which by history and background, Ethiopia so well deserves." In return for the concession, Sinclair promised to devote part of its Ethiopian profits-if any-to build schools, hospitals, clinics, sanitary facilities "and other public institutions for the enhancement, education, health, culture and prosperity of the people...
Many travelers had talked about it. Last week a Jacksonville barge-line opera tor decided it could be done. Young, energetic Harold Gray Williams, 37, had the blueprints drawn and the cash in hand ($2,000,000) needed to build a super de luxe ferry for the 90 nautical-mile trip from Key West to Havana. It will carry 300 autos and 900 passengers. When the first ferry goes into service, probably some time next summer, U.S. autoists can cross the Straits of Florida in six hours, and at a tentative cost of only...