Word: building
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guard the Arctic approaches to North America, there is still one glaring and worrisome gap: the unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will be raised and lowered by huge motor-operated jacks designed to keep the radar-topped structures 15 ft. above the snowdrifts...
...scope of BMEWS is rated by Air Force men as "something fantastic." While construction work by Army engineers goes on at Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth...
...major indicators of U.S. economic health, manufacturers' inventories were the last to turn around. Last week the Commerce Department reported that manufacturers, cutting down their inventories since October 1957, have begun to build them up again. Their stocks climbed $300 million to $49.5 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis. The backlog of unfilled orders in January totaled $47.6 billion, a gain of $800 million over December. The turn came just about when Government economists expected; they expect that inventories will continue to climb at a moderate pace for the rest of the year...
...NUCLEAR SUBS have been contracted for by the Navy. Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. will build two under a $49 million contract, N.Y. Shipbuilding two for $45 million. Navy yards will build two more...
...instead of "giving money to a foreign government to build a project," should hire a private U.S. operator to do the job. The U.S. should also establish an Office of Private Participation, manned by businessmen and Government career men who would "plan for the maximum use of private capital resources on each project and in each country program...