Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research project, according to Dr. Bock, is "to build a body of data which will be useful in solving some of the current problems of social adjustment, employing for the most part existing and generally accepted anthropological, physiological, medical, and Psychological methods...
...wall keeps things in, as well as out. With that in mind, the first emergency conference of the Western Hemisphere's nations moved swiftly to build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies...
First thought went to the practical obstacles : sum total of all South American navies comes to about 70 warcraft, excluding gunboats, and South America has 8,500 Atlantic seacoastmiles, 5,300 Pacific. Must the U. S., with an adequate one-ocean Navy, build one big enough to patrol four seas...
Germany, still denying the loss of a single U-boat, replied that her shipyards can now build a seagoing submarine in six months and that plenty of them are being rushed to completion for a fresh drive to counter-blockade Britain. A. Hitler made a point of visiting the submarine base at Kiel last week and saluting "the men who sank the Courageous...
...going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring the U. S. Navy had tried unsuccessfully to buy Bethlehem Steel's Hunters Point Drydock in San Francisco harbor, and where Admiral Land is determined to build two new shipyards, the rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe and Steel, a small steel fabricator which did only a $5,336,034 gross business last year, booked a $10,635,000 order from Chairman-Admiral Land, began to spend $400,000 to build four new ways...