Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman was known to be worried about relations with Russia. Harry Hopkins in Moscow, said London sources, had found out that Stalin was worried, too. Stalin had gone all out for cooperation with capitalist countries; the build-up of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks in Russia would make a shift embarrassing. The Russian people certainly did not want to contemplate the prospect of World War III. Maxim Litvinov, who represents those Communists who believe in cooperation with capitalist democracy, was pointedly brought from his obscurity to attend a Moscow dinner for Hopkins...
...four sons of Holland-born Sjoerd Bekins felt fenced in by the family's small moving business in Lincoln, Neb. In 1895, they set out in four directions (Omaha, Texas, California and Washington) to build the biggest moving & storage business in the world. They...
After one and a half years' absence from the Pacific War Theater, Gilbert Cant, TIME military writer, has just completed an air tour of the chief Pacific bases. These are his impressions of the vast U.S. build-up since...
...combat troops and only 3,000 or 4,000 construction workers. With U.S. forces holding it, Iwo still has combat troops, but they are inconspicuous. They are lost in the legions of builders: the Navy's Construction Battalions (Seabees) who will fight, if need be, for what they build, and the Army's aviation engineers. Nowhere in the world has so much construction machinery been turned loose in so tiny a compass...
...Biggest. On thin paper, the dam is the greatest waterpower project in the world, easily overshadowing the U.S.'s Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams, and Russia's Dnieprostroy. As projected, it will take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other...