Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasonable? Let us stop insulting the rest of the world. Let us stop wasting priceless energy and billions in wealth merely to build a larger chip for our shoulder. (History has proved that the world will not be intimidated.) Let's apply that energy and wealth to making friends; to lending a helping hand; to being honestly sincere in striving for peace on earth. Let's abolish the hypocrisy that's leading us all to our foolish destruction...
...black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...
...Array. Russia, the only other owner of a first-class military potential, has taken a different course. Russia still has 4½ million men under arms and 15,500 combat airplanes in service, is building a submarine Navy. By best military estimate, Russia has 93 divisions, 7,200 combat airplanes on its European frontier; 82 divisions and 6,000 planes poised toward the Middle East. In Korea and facing Japan she has 13 divisions and 700 aircraft. In Siberia are 20 more divisions and several hundred aircraft in reserve. Within 30 days Russia could build to 10½ million trained...
...absorb the first shock of war, and to build the ready forces to full power, the planners say they need an industrial and manpower reserve which could mobilize a total of 131 air groups and 56 divisions in the first twelve months of war, 180 air groups and 74 divisions within two years...
...over Preston Tucker, designer of a rear-engined automobile named the Tucker 48 (once the Torpedo). The War Assets Administration had leased Tucker the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant, world's largest. He had promised to have $15 million in cash on hand by July 1 to build cars...