Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-dress press release from President Harold L. Ickes of the Petroleum Reserves Corp. Taking PRC out of the mystery-story realm at last, he told the world that the U.S. Government, on military advice and with the full approval of the oil companies involved, plans to build a huge, 1,000-mile pipeline (estimated cost: $130,000,000-$165,000,000) from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
...Paper Czar Boeschenstein promptly announced that he would stretch no quotas, would try to build up a little surplus in newsprint supplies instead...
...bellow important news to his "associates" (employes). Last week the president of Barnumesque Jack & Heintz (Jahco), who contends that the War Department is renegotiating him into the red, told them something that hit home to each & every one. His news was a plan to 1) partially circumvent renegotiation, 2) build up a reserve for postwar expansion...
...basis of WPB figures, Consolidated was entitled to its claim. It had turned out 126,000,000 pounds of aircraft, compared to 115,000,000 for Douglas. But Douglas also had an argument. Thousands of planes produced by Consolidated were easy-to-build trainers, instead of hard-to-build combat ships. Furthermore, Consolidated had merged with Vultee and Stinson in '43, lumped all production...
...politely declined to be drawn into the argument. It refused to designate any company as "biggest," emphasized that comparisons, either in weight or number, are unfair. Reason: a complicated Flying Fortress is more difficult to build than a heavier transport, counts no more, numerically, than a "flying jeep." No figures could take into consideration many an other factor, such as design changes, new models, experimentation. But of one thing WPB was proudly certain: the high-geared U.S. aircraft industry will build more than 100,000 planes this year, compared...