Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern air force must have more than well-proved airplanes. It must have advanced designs that are still being tested, aircraft still in the drawing-board stage, and designs that are still gleams in an air designer's eye. Military aircraft are slow to develop, hard to build; every U.S. Army warplane that played a part in World War II was on the drawing boards before Pearl Harbor...
...Have Never Indulged." Dressed as usual in golf togs, Willem Mengelberg leaned on two sticks as he walked along the snow-covered paths around the Roman Catholic chapel he had vowed to build if his chasa was spared in World War I. "I have never indulged in politics," he said. "My art is public property; I am not supposed to withhold it from anyone...
With angry U.S. farmers breathing hotly on its neck, the Administration was desperately trying to find a way of dealing with the glut. Congressmen considered several bills providing for the Government to take over-or build-more storage space. Secretary Brannan mulled the possibility of listing wheat officially as surplus. That would force EGA, which recently approved the purchase of 140 million bushels of Canadian wheat for Britain at lower than U.S. prices, to buy all its grains at home. EGA could ship more grain to Europe, since it could now buy more with the funds allotted. The Department...
Professor Reischauer said that we must concentrate on utilizing industrial Japan to build up an Asiatic economy...
Though plagued by shortages of generators, private utilities hoped to build up their capacity to a safe reserve of 15% by 1950. And the federal government, currently spending $250 million in generating expansion (it now has about one-fourth of the U.S. total capacity), hoped to bring electrification to areas where private capital has not yet wanted to venture...