Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Majors. Milwaukee is steamed up over its new Memorial Center. Art lovers contributed $300,000 to stage its first show, are now planning to raise another $250,000 to build a second gallery below the present museum area. With interest and enthusiasm running high, Director Dwight now sees a chance to parlay the new building into a major art museum, one that will lift Milwaukee into the major-league category in art to equal its standing in baseball and beer...
...patient been her mother's age, with bags under her eyes, she could have had these removed for $13.88. Building up the bust, sometimes done with tissue injections of which U.S. surgeons strongly disapprove, costs $55 to $83. The Jujin surgeons' success is attested by the fact that they do 20,000 cosmetic operations a year-70% on the eyelids, 20% to build up the bridge of the nose, often with a plastic insert (which costs...
...FEDERAL BUILDING BOOM is about to start. Government has finally lifted 4% ceiling on interest it will pay to build post offices, federal courthouses and other U.S. Government structures on a ten-to-25-year lease-purchase plan, soon will ask for bids on ten structures from Albuquerque to Abingdon, Va. If bids are encouraging, Government will offer 30 more projects in December...
...fall behind, as General Motors learned in 1957, can see profit figures change from $640 million to $602 million (and tumble from 51.4% to 45.5% of the market). And the car that can combine just the right amount of change with the continuity that preserves used-car values can build up year after year until finally it leads them...
...years. They argue that the rapid development of the foreign small-car market (estimated 1957 sales: 225,000) is a vote against ever-longer, ever-fancier Detroit designs. Actually, say the U.S. automen, it is a simple matter of economics. Though a small car costs almost as much to build as a big car, companies would produce them if the market ever demanded it. But the U.S. public still wants its cars big-like its country. "People want big things.'' says Walker. "They want big clocks, for instance. If people have a choice between a big clock...