Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany would be permitted to build bigger and faster ocean-going cargo ships as a start toward restoring her merchant marine...
Needed: Definition. At the core of the European jam was Germany. The Western powers had never really agreed among themselves on a policy toward the new West German Republic. Within the loose framework of the occupation statute (TIME, April 18), they floundered between a policy that would build up West Germany as soon as possible (which by & large is the U.S. aim); and a suspicious policy of keeping West Germany's sovereignty and industrial potential in stringent check (which is the French aim). Western policy needed new, sharp definition, particularly since the Red puppet state in East Germany...
...national hero. "We receive the news of his appointment with great emotion, that a child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first fighting steps and with whom he shared a prison cell...
Last week, Du Pont finally found its long-sought competitors in Olin Industries, Inc., one of the biggest U.S. makers of cartridges, military small arms, and sporting rifles. Du Pont will sell Olin licenses on all Cellophane patents. Du Pont will also design and build a plant with a capacity of 33 million pounds of Cellophane a year on a fixed fee basis, and then help train Olin's personnel to get the operation started...
...most of its traditional rivalries, Harvard was able to build up a lead in games won and lost on the basis of a large number of victories in the early years before other schools caught on to the finer points of the game. But this does not hold true in the Yale series. Both teams, along with Princeton, dominated collegiate football for many years and as a result they traded victories pretty evenly...