Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college is unable to build a parking lot behind Moors Hall, Jordan added, since the asphalt would have to be torn up when future dorms are constructed...
...many losing causes, he rose steadily, first to chief of Syria's police, and finally to army chief of staff. First rumors were that Zaim was an ardent nationalist, who would break off truce negotiations with Israel, cancel the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim denied any such wild intentions. His coup, he said, had "no foreign implications...
...most zealous propaganda-pushers at any Argentine embassy. It was a labor attache who thought up the stunt of having Eva Peròn send clothing to needy Washington schoolchildren. Scores of labor leaders were sent on paid-up junkets to see the New Argentina. But the drive to build up a Peronista hemispheric labor federation came to nothing...
...cover was a pretty girl, but she was also on the back cover, only upside down, and with four eyes and four eyebrows. Inside Pageant were six pages (also upside down) revealing the sensational now-it-can-be-told story of "Garson Inconnu, the four-year-old who helped build the atom bomb," and other startling tales. On the other 156 pages of the magazine were conventional, right-side-up pictures and stories...
...Times muffed its last real chance when the Scripps brothers let Editor Bill Townes quit because they were unwilling to back up his robust, crusading news policy (TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...