Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of Editor Henry W. Grady, in the '80s, the paper had been a Southern New York Times, crusading to build a "new South." As recently as 1931, it won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing municipal corruption. But Owner Clark Ho well Sr. had been less concerned with crusades than with airing his conservative opinions, and the paper had gone on the skids...
...coolly confident and was flexing his muscles for another wage fight with the planters and shippers next February. A vice president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, one J. R. Robertson, had gone out from San Francisco to stir up the shock troops and build up a $200,000 "war chest" (one day's pay a month from each of the I.L.W.U.'s 35,000 members...
...well ahead in diesels. Of some 5,000 diesel units now in service, two-thirds have been built by G.M. Into the once staid locomotive industry, G.M. has also breathed some of the dog-eat-dog competitive spirit of the auto industry. One of its tricks was to build its diesel-drawn Train of Tomorrow (TIME, June 2), to sell diesel travel to passengers and engines to railroads...
...Canal adequate defense in an air age. One of the fields, Rió Hato, would be built into a $25,000,000 bomber base, under a ten-year lease that could be renewed for a further ten years. Conceivably, with Panama defenses stabilized, the U.S. might now proceed to build a sea-level canal-if Congress had a billion dollars to spare...
...kingship in the event of Anthony's success), campaigned for the throne with dignity but persistence, addressed some 2,000 outdoor meetings. At various times he sent a notice to King George V to quit, plumped for the return of the American colonies to Britain, and tried to build up the royal exchequer by selling "pound notes"-redeemable after the restoration-for a penny each...