Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large wall panels, one showing a map of the U. S., the other Russia. The U. S. map was adorned with dollar-signed arrows reaching out in various directions. The Soviet map was surrounded with pictures of various weapons, indicating that U. S. money was being used to build up an armed ring around...
...workmen arrived on upper Plympton Street at 4 p.m. yesterday and laid a sidewalk over the 12-foot quagmire that the student Society has been fighting since Monday to improve. In doing so, the workers completely covered the dirt-and-stone sidewalk that the students themselves felt forced to build on Monday...
...will depend on the United States. The fundamental cause of Britain's and Europe's dollar deficits "lies in our short-run economic instability and our long run tendency to outstrip others in production." The remedy here, Professor Williams feels, may be President Truman's "Point Four" plan to build up undeveloped regions through export of American technology and skill. "And we must preserve stability at home if we really want to achieve a world balance by some other means than the expenditure of our own taxpayers' money...
...which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...
...Atomic Energy for Military Purposes), which told how to go about making an atomic bomb was published by the U.S. War Department in August 1945. But even without the Smyth Report, U.S. scientists warned it was only a matter of time until some foreign nation, i.e., the U.S.S.R., would build a bomb...