Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first planned to build a series of impounding reservoirs in the hills around Johnstown. But when Army engineers tested this scheme on a scale model, it did not work. Eventually they chose to drain the valley. They widened and deepened the channels of Stony Creek, the Conemaugh and the Little Conemaugh, straightened curves, built concrete banks up to 67 ft. high. They spent $8,670,000 all told. Result: swift-flowing, unobstructed channels that are calculated to carry off any floods that may funnel into the valley...
...weakness of the whole fabric of the fighting Army" will have to be eliminated, says Baldwin, before western Europe is invaded. According to Baldwin this major job must first be done: "the unfit, inept, 'stuffed-shirt' and inefficient leaders [must be replaced] with good leadership . . . to build up a pride of outfit in the country's many untested divisions, the divisions that on the war's greatest D-day will hold the future in their hands...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
Irony. This is the year when the railroads had hoped that their problems would ease. They had hoped to get through the war without a serious car shortage. For 1944 WPB has promised steel enough to build 60,000 freight cars and 1,200 locomotives. Pullman has delivered the last of 1,200 troop sleepers...
...parity price for their crops. If prices go up, the growers can reclaim their cotton for private sale. But if prices start downward, an artificial scarcity is created. For eleven years cottongrowers have unloaded their surpluses on the U.S. taxpayer, and have used the taxpayer's money to build a firm floor under cotton prices. CCC cotton holdings last month: seven million bales...