Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want. I can not help it,' he says, 'but sometimes I feel it is more important to give to the sick and poor than to build my church...
...Nevertheless, Ye continues to build his church. He has done most of the construction work himself, although he now has the help of an ex-alcoholic Korean carpenter, whom Ye reformed.Two rooms have been added to one end of the little church, one for Ye to live in, another for his study. The steeple was twisted by a high wind and must be somewhat altered in design.There is a cabbage crop planted on the plot of land (donated by the U.S. Army) where the factory will be, and the foundation-laying must await the harvest...
...George Eiferman, 22, an awesome mass of sun-cured muscle, won the A.A.U.'s annual "Mr. America" contest in Los Angeles' Shrine Civic Auditorium. The judges thought Eiferman, an ex-Navy man and trumpet player, had a better build than twelve other bubble-biceped youths. Height: 5 ft. 9 in.; weight: 197 lbs.; chest: normal 47½ in., expanded 50 in.; waist: 30½ in.; biceps...
...plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...
Beyond that, Hughes plans to sign up the best of Hollywood's independents to make pictures at RKO. Eventually he intends to take an active hand in running things, build up his studio's faded list of stars. As the discoverer of the late Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, Hughes thinks he has the experience for that...