Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M. Tucker, shrewd U.S. vice president of Canada's largest farm-machinery manufacturers, Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Tucker sold the War Food Administration and the Canadian Government on the idea of allocating to Massey-Harris enough engines and steel to build 500 of the self-propelled combines (see cut). The one condition: that Massey-Harris would sell the machines to operators who would agree to cut not less than 2,000 acres of wheat per machine during the 1944 season...
...They found it crowded with evacuees from ravaged western Russia (some are going back home now). The life is rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed the creation of this industrial reserve in Asiatic Russia, the Soviet Union had achieved neither the capacity...
...Slichter's facts towered optimistically above the pessimistic probability of the dark valley period. For the tasks of peace should not confound a people who had learned how to build a Liberty ship in seven days, who worked an average of 52 hours a week to keep the thundering trains rolling, and who plowed their vast fields by moonlight to raise bumper crops...
...three children, filled with the turbulent, conflicting emotions of a subject people whose ancestors tamed elephants. Dr. Aziz had just been royally snubbed by the English-twice. As he sat in the mosque, repeating poetry that brought tears to his eyes and thinking that some day he, too, would build a mosque, he discovered Mrs. Moore: "Madame, this is a mosque, you have no right here at all; you should have taken off your shoes; this is a holy place for Moslems...
...when he married her in 1925), Columnist Pyle roved the highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber in the mining camp of Platinum, near the Arctic Circle. He went to Molokai and wrote about the lepers. He flew around South America...