Word: builded
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Then the group tipped its plan to the public: for $22.5 million, the city could build a 233-mile aqueduct from Owens Valley. The voters overwhelmingly approved a bond issue to pay for it. In 1913 the aqueduct was completed, spilled its water into the "vast stubble field" of the San Fernando Valley*-and to ensure the promise that the water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond...
...University of Beirut," said he at his inauguration, attended by Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, "will not engage in politics nor in indoctrination, but will be free to teach youth to examine and evaluate all ideas . . . One thing we know-that when students are thus educated, they can build nations of their own design. They may not be like those which others have built, but they will achieve the yearnings of their own hearts and will represent the achievement of their own visions...
...simple suspension of nuclear tests unless accompanied by general agreement for a cutoff of nuclear-weapon production (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). There were still disagreements among the allies about some other aspects of the U.S. plan. The British would like to see the cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included in the trial aerial-inspection zone. At week's end Stassen flew over to Paris to confer with NATO's council...
...with an Ax. His sympathy for the underdog aroused, Ziolkowski closed his studio at Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the Interior, snapped at him: "I won't permit you to carve up my mountains." That was not enough to stop Ziolkowski: he bought a mountain...
They plan to invest $700 million there in the next four years, build pipelines from Hassi Messaoud and oil-rich Edjelé to coastal ports. Said French Chief Engineer Christian Redron at Hassi Messaoud: "In a few years we may no longer have to depend on the whims of a Nasser...