Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Snowball and Green Eyes are under lock and key, it cannot be physical, but spiritual authority that they wield. This spiritual authority stems from their criminality: Green Eyes' cellmate Lefranc, trying to build up Snowball at the expense of Green Eyes, caps his description of Snowball with "... his crimes! Compared to them, those of Green Eyes..." And Green Eyes, unready yet to concede the supremacy of Snowball, answers, "I don't know anything about his crimes...
...Smith returned to American, convinced that the great strides made during the war in air transport would bring on the air age and a huge new air-travel market. Just as he had worked with Douglas on the DC-3, he encouraged the firm to build the four-motored, long-range DC-6s, boldly ordered a fleet of 125 DC-6s and shortrange, two-engined Consolidated Vultee CV-240s. As usual, he showed himself a master at timing and bargaining. So eager was Consolidated (now Convair) for orders to relieve its postwar slump that he got the 240s...
Says Smith: "Sure, we could build a plane to go through the sound barrier right now. But we couldn't get our money back. We couldn't charge enough for a ticket." He expects the present jets to be around for a long time...
...question of having Radcliffe girls in an organization has nothing at all to do with whether we can let them use House facilities for club meetings," Taylor added. "The problem is one of space limitations. We would like to build more meeting rooms in the House, but space is running...
...When the new Houses are built, we will have some free space and may consider knocking out a few walls to build some large meeting rooms," Perkins continued. "If this happens, the question of who will use these facilities will come up then...