Word: buildings
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Another source of pressure was Vice President Richard Nixon, who figured that he had much to gain from a healthy, united Republican Party in his home state, even though Knowland's election as governor of California might build Knowland into Nixon's rival for the Republican presidential nomination. Working through intermediaries, Nixon sent word to Knight, his old political enemy, that Knight, if he withdrew, could have either 1) near-unanimous party backing for the Senate or 2) a fat Administration appointment...
...filled tabloid that has the biggest circulation (3,000,000) of any newspaper on the Continent, pays little attention to politics and only skimpily covered Germany's election campaign. He launched it only five years ago after a London trip exposed him to the British popular press. To build readership, he borrowed a bag of tricks from U.S. and British newspapering, e.g., traffic-safety contests, horse-drawn coach rides for every couple married in Hamburg...
Living up to this philosophy, Nervi has won his commissions not for esthetic reasons but through his ability to undercut his competitors, make records in construction time. His stadium in Florence, seating 35,000, cost only $2.90 per seat to build; recently he put up a three-story factory in 100 days. Faced with commodity scarcities and cutthroat competition, he has still managed to raise pure structure to the level...
...Italian Corps of Engineers. Out of the army, he worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast arched structures 130 ft. wide and 330 ft. long, with no interior columns, no steel girders, no expensive form making...
...forehead, and her eyes were very deep and gentle. "See, you got the ability to make yourself better than other people you know; but it's going to be hard job. People are going to try to give you a bad name, understan; see, it takes whole lifetime to build up a good reputation, but only five minutes to give a bad name. Now, you got a girl you think you love very, very much, right...