Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress and state legislatures had appropriated millions to build super highways on which speeders could kill themselves at higher speeds. The traffic light, the yellow line, the parking lot, the parking meter, the underground garage, the one-way street, the motorcycle cop and the traffic ticket had all blossomed amid the monoxide fumes-and traffic had gone right on getting thicker and noisier year by year...
...Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month, beginning in February. The Jewish Agency for Palestine gave priority to young people, able to build or fight...
...eight lean years, British journalists are not used to it either. Wrote Lord Layton, chairman of London's Liberal News Chronicle, while head of the industry's newsprint rationing committee: "With international responsibilities second to none, our newspapers are among the smallest in the world. . . . You cannot build . . . a peaceful world on ignorance or breed world citizens if they have no access to knowledge...
...laboratory in a study of animal instincts, with pack rats and hamsters, a Near East relative of the gopher, as chief subjects. Answers are being sought to such questions as why do rats form packs, why do they heard and transport miscellaneous small objects, and why do some animals build houses...
...chairman, canny James Lamb. It was Lamb who had chosen the Crenshaw's location-a 35-acre tract in a suburban area which had no department stores, although there were 567,000 residents within 20 minutes' drive of the site. (The Prudential Life Insurance Co. plans to build 9,000 apartment and duplex units nearby.) That was reason enough to build a shopping area with a new Broadway store as its center...