Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace. As yet, all the world had to go on was the U.S. Government's intention to build a 1,000-mile, $130-165 million pipeline across Saudi Arabia, to move oil from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean (TIME, Feb. 14). But this was only an item; beyond it, momentous things were at stake-even the future peace of the world...
...Higgins to build a boat that would carry tanks into water shallow enough for them to roll ashore. He tried an amphibious tractor ("alligator") that Donald Roebling had invented for rescue use in the Florida Everglades. For two years the aluminum cleats always came off the alligator. But it was the forerunner of today's amphibious tank...
Though this two-year supply is big enough to free the U.S. of its present dependence on Bolivia, Washington is not indifferent to Bolivian tin. The prevailing WPB view is that the U.S. should actually build up a stockpile of as much as four years' supply...
...much will taxpayers, who will have spent $16.4 billion to build their merchant marine, be willing to spend for annual subsidies to operate...
...much will the Maritime Commission, which will own at least 80% of all U.S. ships, expect the operators to pay for vessels constructed at fancy wartime costs? The 1944 Liberty ships cost approximately $175 a ton to build v. lower prewar costs for much better ships. Moreover, costs in European yards were about half the costs in U.S. yards...