Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that future, he promised a program not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. It included more irrigation and flood control projects, expanded rural electrification and soil conservation, protection and development of forests, oil reserves, mineral resources. To build the West's power supply he promised new river projects on the Columbia and Missouri. To keep it all humming, he promised to appoint, "with great pleasure," a Secretary of the Interior from the West...
While this and similar problems (such as the proposed movement to ultra high frequencies) are threshed out, TV will mark time. The 37 existing stations will continue telecasting; 87 others, with construction permits, may build if they choose; 303 applications for stations are to be frozen for the time being. This means that many a U.S. city which had looked forward to TV within the year will have to wait another year-or longer...
...course it's all an old story for Coach Lamar, who every year runs into the same problem of having to build some sort of a Freshman football team in little more than a week. But this season the task looks tougher than over...
...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days...
Last week, the news leaked out that Caltex Oil Products Corp., a joint subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California and The Texas Co., had made a deal to help build and operate a refinery in Spain, near Cartagena, at a cost of around $18 million. Caltex would put up part of the money, and own 24%. The rest would be 24% owned by Cepsa, the state oil monopoly, and 52% by another state company, Institute Nacional de Industria...