Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thumbs Down. In 1938, Big Ed Kelly, then mayor, had wangled an $18 million federal appropriation to help Chicago build its first small rabbit-run of subway. He got it on condition that all the city's transportation facilities be unified-and improved. His city councilmen dutifully passed a unification plan. The plan was approved by voters in a referendum, by surface and elevated line bondholders, and by the federal court which had jurisdiction over the bankrupt operating companies. But in 1943 the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected Kelly's proposals as "unsound...
...British occupation authorities had sponsored the exhibition in an attempt to build up an export trade for their combined zones, called Bizonia. A breakdown of orders placed by the 1,500 foreign visitors showed 20% for automobiles and accessories. Only 20% went for toys, musical instruments and other small industry products...
...after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
...Scriptures, precede the end of the intermediary period. What I do know is that if this were the case, our duty would still be, as it was for our ancestors of the year 1000, to scrutinize our own disorder and to try, for the honor of man, to build on a solid foundation a city which, according to our faith, either defies or appeals to eternity...
Biggest Business. Slaves and slave camps are the private property of the MVD, and their productivity has made the Soviet secret police the world's biggest business. Slaves build electric power dams, factories, canals, railroads. They mine coal, iron, gold. By Dallin's estimate, they represent at least one out of every four Soviet workers. Since they can be regimented without appeal, worked to death without mercy and paid little or nothing, they are the Soviet Government's most profitable labor...