Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas last week, the City Council ignored grumblings of a delegation of whites, voted unanimously to let 36-year-old Bill Cothrum, a white contractor, build a 408-unit Negro housing development on land adjacent to a white section. "We talk of doing things to house the Negroes," argued one of Cothrum's supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build...
...Crow. Some Negro leaders resented the very steps, small and often grudging, that were making the South a more tolerable place for the Negro to live. They argued that every attempt to build better segregated parks and schools was only perpetuating what they were fighting to end: Jim Crowism. It was probably a valid conclusion. Many white Southerners were working unselfishly to reduce the Negro's squalor, illiteracy and ill-health, to end his disenfranchisement and ease his fear of violence. Perhaps a majority of these same Southerners still insisted that segregation was an institution that must...
There is a theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...
...Purchase Card Committee has been well fulfilled: we have bridged the gap between an idea on paper and an actual system in operation. The job, of course, is not perfect in every aspect, but it provides a firm foundation on which next year's committees can build a bigger and better system, and of course increase the sale of cards...
...return, the company agreed to build a $4,800,000 factory capable of producing 600,000 barrels of cement a year. To raise the capital, Sir William got the World Commerce Corp. to underwrite $1.400,000, had no trouble at all in selling $2,000,000 worth of stock to enthusiastic Jamaicans. Last week the new company, awaiting $1,000,000 worth of machinery from England, was already clearing its 72-acre site on Kingston Harbor...