Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as WPB gives the word, the airlines will begin to get the planes. Douglas is making a military version of the DC-4, will build the DC-6 for the Army...
...freshman, he built a 100-lb. model, lugged it to the Army's aviation laboratories at Wright Field. "They said I'd better just go back home and forget the whole thing." Thereupon he hied himself to Washington, tracked down Grover Loening, wangled priorities to build a full-scale model...
...Isaac Gilman was distressed because his model town had no churches. So he dug into his pocket, gave most of the money to build the Methodist Church ($28,000) and St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church ($15,000). St. Theresa's was soon self-sustaining, but Mr. Gilman gave several hundred dollars a year to the Methodists...
Carriage Trade. But Grumman could not live on Navy orders alone. He began to build de luxe amphibians for sportsmen and corporations to hustle bigwigs around the country.* By 1937, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. had so much business on the books it almost went broke. The company had run out of working capital, and owed the banks $450,000 (mainly because it had lost $100,000 on an amphibian-plane contract). To raise cash, Grumman got ready to float his first public stock issue. Then the market crashed. Wall Street's famed Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith...
...wily Goldwyn then executed a dazzling maneuver. He announced that the first night's receipts would be handed to the local Camp and Hospital Service Committee. Official Reno opposition vanished. Then Goldwyn had only to import a non-inflammable film (cost: $1,000) and build a false wooden floor in the dance hall so that 400 borrowed chairs could be nailed down to conform to building laws...