Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one significant challenge to the Soviet method has appeared in Asia. That challenge is posed by India. Under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, India is striving to build a planned industrial economy that will be made safe for democracy. In the abstract, Nehru's humane alternative is clearly preferable to Asians, but today's Asia is impatient and pragmatic. If India fails to make rapid economic progress or even if her rate of economic growth lags too far behind that of Red China, most of Asia, including India itself, may succumb in time to the clanking siren...
...made possible such a remark (as well as the B. & K. visit) has helped to create in India an ideological climate which may in time constitute Nehru's one great disservice to his country. Russian aid to India, which so far has consisted chiefly of a promise to build a 1,000,000-ton steel plant on an $80 million-$95 million loan, has been received with a fanfare of publicity. U.S. loans and gifts, which during the first five-year plan amounted to $538 million, have been accepted grudgingly. The posters everywhere greeting B. & K. with "India...
...interchangeable body shell with Studebaker along the lines of its Packard Predictor dream car. Another possibility: that West Germany's Daimler-Benz will come in on the agreement, use Studebaker's dealer setup to distribute Mercedes cars and trucks in the U.S. Eventually, Studebaker might also build Mercedes products...
MORE POWER PARTNERSHIP is in store for Northwest. Pacific Power & Light Co. has signed deal with Washington State's Cowlitz County Public Utility District to develop Upper Lewis River in $56.7 million project to produce 256,500 kw. by 1958. Pacific Power & Light will build and own main dam and powerhouse producing 189,000 kw., while PUD will spend $15 million on smaller, 67,500-kw. downstream powerhouse, get 26% of overall power produced...
...years ago Honor Tracy, then a 38-year-old journalist on assignment for the Sunday Times of London, made a pointed little pen sketch of the village of Doneraile in County Cork and its 82-year-old priest, Canon Maurice O'Connell, who was then raising funds to build himself a new house. Miss Tracy's story was too pointed for the old canon, who sued the newspaper, which settled out of court with an apology. Journalist Tracy (who, like her fictional hero, is thatch-headed), thereupon sued the Sunday Times on the grounds that its retraction reflected...