Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Lamar started the season with a veritable hall of fame of prep-school football. But it took two victories, two defeats and two months of grueling practices alongside the stadium to build a team from the raw materials...
...years. Most were not Communists and many had obviously prospered. Their children looked, talked and dressed like Americans. But they were certain that Mother Russia offered them more than America. Their passage was free. They had been promised good jobs, loans with which to build homes and businesses. Russia, starved for goods, was shipping up to $60,000 worth of their machinery and possessions for nothing-many were taking automobiles, refrigerators, tools...
Before they sailed, spokesmen for the group issued a statement: "We depart from the U.S. of our own free will, with sentiments of deepest gratitude and admiration. . . . The democratic institutions of America afforded us an opportunity to build life anew...
...Britain's deficit in trade with the U.S. will still be at the rate of $1 billion per year. With characteristic realism, Cripps did not count on further U.S. aid while constructing his plans for Britain's economy. But he knew that only U.S. help could build up Europe's production. The Marshall Plan discussions, he said, "are the most momentous for the whole future of democratic civilization in the world." Meanwhile, Britons would have to spend more of their energies on exports rather than domestic needs or capital outlay...
...worked persuasively to win its members to enlightened economic ideas. He wants, he says, to make Brazil a "place where a working man can save something out of his weekly pay check instead of going steadily into debt." On such a basis, Simonsen believes, the country can build a sound economy...