Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonizer Sayão is well aware of the project's weaknesses. He wants to use some of the threefold increase Rio granted for his next year's budget to build more schools. The hospital, too, needs funds. So far, the colony has concentrated on rice as a cash crop; Sayão is not sure but that cotton or coffee might be better. Also, the road that was the colony's lifeline leads only to Anapolis' one-horse railway. Now Sayão is driving the highway some 130 miles beyond his colony...
Said one: "Everybody is raiding everybody else. We just don't have the kind of money that Northern colleges can throw around-some Harvard professors make more money than our governor. Northern schools bid up the rank, too, offering associate professorships to instructors. It takes 25 years to build a university faculty-and only two to destroy...
...high New Mexico mesa where the town of Los Alamos now stands, there was once a school for boys. In 1942 the U.S. Army bought Los Alamos Ranch School, folded it up and asked the alumni not to mention its name. Then they began to build the town that built the atom bomb...
...Crimson coach's international reputation stems mostly from his "form technique," his ability to take mediocre athletes and build them up into dependable point-getters; not that Harvard lacks outstanding material. Coach Mikkola, who has looked a few men over in his years here, claims that "only indifference prevents more track starts from developing at Harvard...
...mollify Anglo-Iranian, concerned about selling its own production in Iran, Jersey Standard planned to buy substantial quantities of oil over the next 20 years. To transport it, Anglo-Iranian will build a pipeline from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean-with Standard footing about $30,000,000 of the bill...