Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story? In two months of secret proceedings the committee had tried to find out 1) if Hughes and his wartime partner, Henry Kaiser, had used pressure to get and keep war contracts, and 2) what they had done with the $40 million the Government had given them to build war planes...
...means abandoned all hope of international accord. In the U.N., U.S. Atomic Representative Frederick Osborn would continue to press the U.S. plan for international atomic control. But as long as Russia continued to block that plan, it was David Lilienthal's job to build the most destructive atomic weapon known to mankind...
...have gone straight. He gets about 1,000 letters a year from them; many are now respected doctors, lawyers, mechanics, farmers. Last week, after 34 years, Floyd Starr was sure that his school was "well out of swaddling clothes." There was just one more thing he wanted to build, and he was busy raising the money to build it-a chapel...
...build the inter-American Highway are heroes in the villages of Mexico and Central America. Engineers are given free meals, free rides on buses, are often made guests of honor at special fiestas. Villagers, unconcerned with the highway's long-distance aspects, as a link in inter-American unity, see it in its local character, as an immediately useful road. The road ends age-old isolation, makes it possible to get bananas to market, to exchange them for huaraches and cooking pots, to trade Honduran lumber for Salvadoran sugar and corn...
...much better to him. But Wehran thought it had possibilities. He scraped up the $100,000 down payment and bought the field for $500,000. Then he persuaded Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) to finance the remainder on a ten-year mortgage and lend him $500,000 more to 1) build three 3,000-ft. runways and 2) buy another 200 acres to add to his 350. In return, Wehran agreed to sell only Standard's gasoline...