Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally, the plan to build a private steam-power plant (under contract with two Southern utility firms, headed by Edgar H. Dixon and the late Eugene A. Yates) to feed the expanding power load of the Tennessee Valley Authority was hailed as part of the President's policy of slowing "creeping socialism." But the White House dropped the plan discreetly, soon after TVA-minded Democrats cried scandal over an apparent conflict of interest: Banker Adolphe H. Wenzell had served at the same time as 1) a vice president of New York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates...
...Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-gathered to put the finishing touches to their own free-trade association, known familiarly as the "Outer Seven" (though some of its members think the name invidious). Recognizing, in the words of one British official, that "we simply cannot let the Common Market Six build up walls we may never be able to scale," the Outer Seven have decided to get their commerce into step with the Common Market. Thus their draft plan envisions a tariff reduction of 20% on July 1, 1960, the date on which the Common Market takes its own second...
Across the U.S., Winston has built housing valued at more than $250 million. He has $112 million worth abuilding, including groups of 3,500 apartments in Bayside. L.I., 1,500 apartments in Palatine, Ill. His formula for success is to build houses fast and in quantity, offer people something they could not duplicate for the price ($8,490 to $29.000), and, most of all. "build up to their dreams" by offering luxuries and interiors usually found in costlier houses...
...everybody. Fumed a Santiago businessman: "The people here who were Fidel's best friends are working against him now, just like they worked against Batista. A man slaves like a dog to build up a piece of land, and now they take it and give it to somebody else. And if you talk too much, they'll knock your...
Quicksilver or Bones. For 45 days before the festival this year, 400 carpenters worked three shifts around the clock to build the carts, each 45 ft. high and 35 ft. wide. (After each year's ceremony, the carts are torn down and the lumber sold to contractors.) The deities themselves take two weeks of preparation. First they are taken from their thrones to the holy bathing pavilion and bathed with scented water from 108 pitchers. Then they are repainted and dressed for their ride...