Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court do not seem to have been able to keep him from being handled, occasionally, as roughly as the N.A.M. Example: last spring CAB forced him to reduce AVCO's 20% interest in American Airlines to 4% under its rule that no company can operate airlines and also build planes...
...create the European family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe...
...lire for ... ceding 191 hectares to hungry peasants, I have the honor to inform you that the peasants will pay nothing. They will give you one-fifth of the crop and keep the remainder as the just reward of the sweat they pour out to build a new Italy where Justice, not kings, shall reign. I am, sir, your most obedient servant...
...Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in diameter at the end of a 50-foot horizontal arm. When the arm is revolving 48 times a minute, the cab will circle at 173 m.p.h. At this speed everything inside it will be subjected to "a centrifugal force of 40 "Gs," much more than the most rugged man can stand...
With its new outside capital the company will redeem $5,150,000 worth of outstanding preferred stock. The balance it will probably use to build bigger plants, market new varieties. Prospective investors, getting their first look inside the Heinz door, saw an appetizing sight. Last week Heinz reported that sales for the year ending last April 30 were $114,150,564. Net profit, $4,052,084, one of the best in the company's history...