Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twofold purpose: 1) it provided a welcome boost in morale for Chiang's government (the English-language China News reported itself "greatly cheered" at the news), and 2) it served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow, on the mainland 100 miles across the Strait of Formosa. Three...
Though the powerful Indiana State Teachers Association has endorsed federal aid. Governor Harold Handley and his elected superintendent of public instruction, Wilbur Young, do not want it. According to their estimates, the state needs to build somewhere around 1,600 classrooms a year, has actually built more than that since 1955. Says Governor Handley: "I am opposed to federal aid for the primary reason that we can take care of ourselves." Adds Superintendent Young: "We can do it better, we can do it cheaper, and surrender none of our rights in the process...
...later taught at Harvard. The youthful Von Hennebergs, 34 and 30, set up shop in Cambridge, Mass. Last January, with their associate, another Polish refugee, Bohdan Hryniewicz, 27, they entered an international competition, sponsored by Poland's Committee for the Reconstruction of Warsaw, to design a multistory apartment building for low-income families. Said Witold: "The competition was a plebiscite in which architects together with technical and economic specialists would freely decide how to build multistory apartment buildings under Polish conditions." That meant with relatively low costs for labor and high for material...
...with certain types of fine ores that mills are starting to use, it works better. Steelmen believe that most of the bugs in the direct-reduction method will be worked out in a year or so, and then one of the major companies may take the plunge and build a big plant. The first one would probably be built in the South or West, where the absence or high cost of coking coal now prevents building of blast furnaces. Meanwhile oldtimers are certain that existing blast furnaces will continue to operate for a long time, and that ways will...
...alone the menace of the atomic bomb. In their place he had the Black Death, tyranny, piracy, the ruthless brutality of mercenary armies. He was the son of a Prato tavern-keeper; by wise trading and prudent investment over a period of 32 years, he became rich enough to build his international business...