Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared that "so long as we do not ask the college students to go about in period clothes, it seems absurd to build college buildings in pseudo-period design...
Massachusetts went to work yesterday to find out how much it will cost to build a toll express highway joining the end of Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway with the New Hampshire link to the Maine Turnpike...
...only has 1949 been a record year for construction in Cambridge, but there are a number of businessmen who would like to build here but can't for lack of space; Plan E's low tax rate has proved quite an attraction in this respect. Finally, Cambridge-unlike such one industry cities as Fall River, Lynn, and Gloucester-is somewhat depression-resistant in that it boasts diversification of trades. Candy, soap, chemicals, metals, and printing companies-as well as colleges-continue to flourish here...
...strategy worked. By session's end, the 81st had raised the minimum wage from 40? to 75? an hour, expanded crop insurance, authorized increased spending for public power systems, restored the Commodity Credit Corp.'s authority to build grain storage bins and (with G.O.P. support, notably from Ohio's Taft) passed a slum-clearance and public-housing bill. In the closing minutes, the 81st enacted a portmanteau farm compromise put over by former Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson, and designed to redeem Harry Truman's vague and grandiose promises to the farmers...
...Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey. He's got the build. And those hands." King gave...