Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than just a question of whether a boat or two gets through the canal or does not get through, or even whether the canal breaks down. Upon what we do, in my opinion, will very largely depend the question of whether or not in fact we are going to build a peaceful world...
...hotels, e.g., the old Waldorf-Astoria and St. Regis, last week promised Manhattan the biggest and glossiest project in the family's 150 years in New York real estate. Vincent Astor, 64, fifth-generation chief of the U.S. clan founded by John Jacob Astor, announced that he would build a block-square, 46-story office building at Park Avenue and 53rd Street, thus add to Manhattan's office space another million square feet, the air-conditioned, carpeted equivalent of 17 football fields...
...During the negotiations on the controversial Dixon-Yates contract to build a $107 million steam plant for operation by private utilities in the Memphis area, Adolphe H. Wenzell acted as a Budget Bureau consultant while at the same time working for the First Boston Corp., financial agent for the project...
Textilemakers themselves must also build up new markets. Cotton consumption has held steady at some 9,000,000 bales annually for the past decade, while consumption of almost everything else has greatly increased. Says Dr. McDonald K. Home Jr., chief economist of the National Cotton Council: "We need very much to invest new money in research, to do some long-range planning. The auto industry gives power steering, while we wear old shirts and look like the devil. We haven't met the test...
...Convair has a $400 million development contract for a small number of planes. But if the Hustler proves as good as it looks, Convair is in line for a whopping big order and a pat on the back. Where most U.S. planemakers just build the air frame, then fit on whatever armament, radar, etc. that the Air Force orders, Convair's B58 is the first U.S. aircraft to be built under the new "weapons-system" concept, where the prime contractor is responsible for everything (except engines). On a plane as complex as the Hustler, the new system can save...