Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crusade moving, Graham now believes that he must focus on bigger deals first before he can make the thousands of little ones he dreams of. In Bombay he put up $20,000 to match $20,000 in rupees" from Textile-man P. N. Kejriwal, who wants to build a nylon hosiery plant...
Juan Basin, build a pipeline and processing plant to deliver 115 million cu. ft. of gas daily to California-bound lines. Cost of project: $26 million...
...from Innocenti, a portly, 66-year-old onetime plumber's helper, to Italy's midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more he looked the better he liked...
...welcomed his offer of $4,000,000 in aid and technical assistance. In South Viet Nam's capital of Saigon, Kishi's reception was formal and cool. Saigon's politicians were miffed because 1) they hoped that Kishi would offer $150 million in reparations and help build a major dam for them, and he said not a word about it; 2) President Ngo Dinh Diem sees himself, not Kishi, as the spokesman of non-Communist Asia...
...athletics, however, T.R.'s energy served him well, for it brought him somewhat closer to his fellows. Though not a great, or even a good college athlete, Roosevelt had taken to exercise to build up his asthma-weakened body. Endurance became a fetich with him, and he took great pride in outdoing his friends...