Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
Like a Vishinsky speech, I Want to Be Like Stalin attempts to build one myth about Russia and another about the world outside. To accomplish this, history is arbitrarily distorted (in 1934, a three-man committee of Stalin, Kirov, and Zhdanov saw to the revision of all history textbooks). Thus, Soviet schoolchildren are taught: during "the Great Patriotic War [World War II] . . . we proved to be the only power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of fascism, but also of inflicting on it a decisive and fatal defeat...
...steelmen, who are blamed by the railmen for the failure of the building program, pointed a finger at the car builders. Walter Sheldon Tower, head of the American Iron & Steel Institute, said that steelmakers had, by Government figures, supplied carmakers with enough steel to build 26,950 cars in June, July and August-5,950 more than the program figure. But production for domestic use in those months totaled only...
Meddlers Beware. Politicians and chair-warmers who tried to fight blunt Dr. Hawley came out second best. Angered by pork-hungry Congressmen who wanted V.A. hospitals in out-of-the-way places, Hawley cracked: "I recommend that we build hospitals like they do hog houses in Indiana-on skids. Then they could be hauled around from one congressional district to another just before election...
First A-Bomb Plants. The tense problem of the atomic bomb is naturally bothering the Soviet high command. Russia has the knowledge-but she has not yet brought manufacture of the bomb to an industrial level. Already, however, the Soviet Union has begun to build the first three plants for the production of A-bombs. They are in eastern Siberia and will be ready to begin turning out bombs in some 12 to 18 months...