Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other tactics were more obscure. Records of technological and research advancements were destroyed or carefully hidden. Nazi laws forbidding export of capital were eased to permit German industries to build up assets abroad. German industrialists hoped to strengthen themselves through international borrowing and cartel agreements, weakening the will of the Allies to take punitive measures...
...being liberated. But current production of 240,000 tons a month is still 82% below the prewar output. Italy, which once used to import 1,000,000 tons of coal a month, is now getting only 10% of that. Norway is out of fuel and Sweden, which managed to build up a stockpile of German coal during the war, will soon be scraping bottom...
...stock-in-trade is advice on how to dress up a drugstore, on new ways to sell Epsom salts, etc. Not so the July issue, out this week. For hot-weather reading, Druggist's 60,000 subscribers were served up 13 high-minded pieces on how to build a better world. Articles on "Understanding Russia" replaced "Tomorrow's Cosmetic Sales...
...them were solemnly laying plans for a "space station" 5,100 miles up, from which a "sun gun" would have the whole earth at its mercy. Assuming that at that height a floating structure would be beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city...
Sleep, Gentle Sleep. This was more than Scott had made on his company in recent years. New Zealand-born, Scott fought in France as an Anzac corporal, came to the U.S. and wrote a syndicated newspaper column on how to build homemade radios. In 1924, he organized his company. It flourished erratically. So did the Scott legend...