Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last airborne operation was a gem of its type. Sooner or later we shall have others, each, we hope, equally good in its own particular class-dropping in front of an armored spearhead or seizing an airhead from which to build up other strong forces. ''Horizon unlimited," indeed...
Congressman Richard J. Welch (R., Calif.) wanted to know why scarce steel was being used to build 30 merchant ships in U.S. yards for the Dutch Government. To this logical question he got a logical answer. Said the Maritime Commission's Vice Admiral Emery S. Land: when the ships are completed they will be assigned to the United Nations shipping pool and used for whatever service the pool considers necessary. Only after the pool is disbanded will the Dutch get their new ships...
...type cargo vessels of 10,000 tons each, from the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., and 20 small coastal ships from the Albina Engine & Machine Works, at Portland, Ore. Shipping men estimated the total cost at $50 million-almost twice as much as it would have cost to build the ships in Dutch yards before...
Tigrett's bank grew slowly. But Tigrett's reputation as a man with a head for figures spread rapidly. When local capital ists rashly decided to build a 48-mile rail road, the Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad, they elected Tigrett treasurer, a position which incidentally included the job of raising the money to keep the rail road running. In 1911, he became president of the B. & N.W., soon was elected a director of a neighboring railroad, the struggling Gulf, Mobile & Northern Rail road Co. Eight years later, largely because nobody else was interested in managing the G.M. & N., Tigrett...
...Still Another? For many years after the war, Bob Ingalls devoutly believes, his yard will be busy. The diesel-electric locomotive orders should take up the slack between ship contracts. Last week shipping circles buzzed with a rumor of still another project. The rumor: after the war Ingalls will build a fleet of fast ships, operate them under his own house-flag carrying fruits and vegetables from West Coast ports to Europe...