Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What finally burned Juan Plate to a crisp, it appeared, was what Chief of Staff Aranda had to say about a proposal to build schools for 74,000 Paraguayan children. The Colonel's answer: the Army's needs were more urgent; the children could wait. The Army would see to their education (the boys, anyhow) when they...
...some 18 months, home builders have been held down by WPB's order L41 ; they could build no house that cost more than $8,000. When WPB swept out most of its restrictions at war's end, it also promised to drop L-41, at the end of this month. But last week, the construction industry was shocked to learn that L41 is far from dead. OPA was waging a rear guard action to keep the L41 restriction of $8,000 - or raise it to $12,000, at most - on all new private houses for another six months...
...Boom? That there is a rip roaring building boom in the making was plain to everyone. But it was equally plain that a sudden rise in prices would take the steam out of the boom. Armed with the latest and one of the most comprehensive of building surveys, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM drove that point home this week. The FORUM found that 2,778,000 families are "good prospects" to buy or build houses. Some 70% of them plan to spend less than $8,000 and more than half of them have the cash in the bank or in War Bonds...
...year-old Eastern Orthodox missionary who was raised a Missouri Lutheran. For four years he has been working full-time in the punch-press department at Stewart-Warner (artillery fuses), at $30 a week. Purpose: 1) to support himself, his mother and brother; 2) to earn money to build a church...
When Henry J. Kaiser built his Fontana steel mill in 1942 (on a hog farm in California's San Bernardino County) he borrowed $111.8 million from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Of this sum he spent $94 million to build the plant, held the balance for working capital...