Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version was sharper: "to create facts, to confront the world with these facts, and to build on their foundation...
...Beans. He was to get a good deal further. In two years as head of the education program in the Truk District (in the Navy-administered U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands*), he was to teach hundreds of island boys & girls to read & write, and to build a general school system from scratch. By last week, with his tour of duty in the Pacific ended, 32-year-old Bill O'Brian, a graduate of Wake Forest College with an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, had gone far beyond his original Navy directive. He had founded...
Mushrooming Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population...
...such things," and he liked the blueprints showed him by McDonnell, a crack designer who had once worked for Glenn L. Martin. When they parted, McDonnell had $40,000 of good Rockefeller cash and Rockefeller had 4,000 shares of highly speculative preferred stock. The deal helped McDonnell to build his second-floor engineering office into St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., which during the war made 7,000,000 Ibs. of airframes, and last year earned a $1,600,000 net profit on $20 million in sales...
...first the action was an inter-dorm affair. Some 50 men were battling it out purely for sport but Sergeant Toomey sensed "inherent evil" and broke it up. Several stayed in the Yard however, and began to build a snow woman. A group of Cambridge high schoolers who were wandering through the Yard made what the Harvard men felt were "impolite advances" towards their work of art and after an exchange of opinions there was violence...