Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they met in the Salon de l'Horloge of the Foreign Ministry, the conference chairman, Ernest Bevin, told them: "I think the world might be assured that this organization is not a conference but a workshop. It will be charged with the duty of determining practical steps to build up European production [and] to reduce the dollar deficit...
France needs labor, and Italy has a labor surplus. So the two have undertaken to organize a labor migration. France and Italy will go into the market as one unit to buy essential imports. Together they will try to build up markets for their export industries. A committee is working out ways to share port trade between the two great rivals, Genoa and Marseille...
Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...
...Manly Art. Promoter Tex Rickard, the Barnum of boxing, came on the scene just when the Garden's owners were getting ready to raze it. They were so impressed by his money-making shows that, when the Garden was torn down, they raised $5,000,000 to build a new & bigger one on Eighth Avenue, later listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange...
...estimated 90 representatives, including a Harvard Student Council delegation, will attempt to build what has been tentatively called the Boston Student Government Council...