Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exaggeration and ancient ham devices make up the first act of the play, and most of the second, with a little interpolated social conscience thrown in. After that comes a slow build-up to the curtain line, which almost makes up for the rest...
...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
...Only through a strong UN can we have peace. Only by being fully and constructively used can the UN gain strength.... In the long run it is the United States which will suffer a permanent loss of prestige unless we show our willingness to build One World through use of the machinery...
...know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money"), and the Senate was saved...
Headstart. The Hudson Motor Car Co. kicked off the 1948 auto model season. It shut down its assembly lines to finish retooling for a "revolutionary" new model. Hudson plans to build a car only five feet high, yet with full headroom interior. Hudson, already delivering present models 90 days after order, anticipates a break in the sellers' market sometime in the next few months. It hopes to get into full production of its new model in several weeks, thus score a beat on its larger competitors...