Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giuseppe's gang stopped repairing war-wrecked roads and started to build a new one, the Road of the Sea, running from Cros-de-Cagnes to Antibes. The Riviera was very gay again. Giuseppe settled his shack near the swank restaurant Rallye; at night he could hear the sounds of the jazz band...
...will have the power to step up exploitation of Canadian resources. Gold mines, for example, will get a $7-an-ounce subsidy for every ounce they produce over their output in the twelve months ending last June 30. Coal production will be stimulated. Under Minister Howe, Canada hopes to build more paper mills, make high-grade paper stocks at home instead of sending wood pulp to the U.S. to be processed...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
...journeying through echoes. Sometimes they saw herds of buffalo so vast that the prairie trembled with the incessant roaring of the bulls. The men made nets of brush and in a few minutes scooped over 500 fish from the river. High in the mountains, the Indian guides did not build campfires, but set fire to a huge tree that blazed up in the darkness, a mighty beacon glaring over the apparent top of the world, thousands of miles from civilization. The wilderness shook the sense of reality...
...committee, headed by K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., recommended to the President the immediate adoption of a program to build 46 passenger vessels in the next four years. Two of them would be 50,000-ton express liners of 2,000-passenger capacity, designed to compete with Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth...