Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Came Science. From that meeting came a joint Army-Navy undertaking named Project Orbiter. The Navy was to develop the satellite itself; the Army was to build the vehicle, using Redstone as its first stage. Target dates: launching sites to be established by April 1956, and the actual satellite shoot to be made in the summer or fall...
...European nations (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) have set out to create a common market that will whittle away tariffs among themselves and build up joint tariff fences against outside countries. Unless it strives to work out tariff-paring agreements with this community-in-the-making, the U.S. will find itself fenced out of a market that now buys 17% of the U.S.'s total exports...
When Inland decided to build its own headquarters at Dearborn and Monroe Streets, opposite its old offices in a bank building, it set a basic goal. "We are the only major steel company with headquarters in Chicago," said Inland Vice President Leigh Block. "We wanted a building we'd be proud of, one that spelled steel...
...hugely enjoys being Adnan the Builder, has developed a technique that is a mixture of bulldozing and infectious persuasion to get what he wants. After he allowed four foreign companies to distribute petroleum products in Turkey, he demanded that they collaborate to build Turkey a refinery. They objected, then gave in; Menderes will get his refinery. Menderes wanted a modern school of architecture in Ankara, got the U.N. to supply the architect. Scarcely had he arrived before Menderes summoned him, instructed him to set up parallel schools of management, civil and mechanical engineering. The architect protested that he knew nothing...
...though Lim Chin Siong is still lodged behind the towering grey walls of Changi prison, his colleagues on the outside are still working untiringly to build up popular support for his People's Action Party. "Singapore," said a Western diplomat recently, "may wake up one morning soon to find itself with the first democratically elected Communist government in history...