Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pushed through a $5,442,000 public-works program to build highways, lay out public beaches and build 15 villages in Oriente province, where he started his rebellion against Batista...
...Beam. To build a true, fishlike sub, the Navy scrapped all remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
BRITISH ATOM SUB reactor will be built by Westinghouse, first such reactor to be sent abroad. Westinghouse got contract because no British firms build the pressurized water reactor found best for subs. British firms have been concentrating on large generators for power stations...
...rebuffed the "national security" pleas of lobbyists, who wanted to block imports of such items as watches and woolens. But the wind recently began to shift: the new chief at the office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Leo Hoegh, tossed out a bid by English Electric Co. Ltd. to build two hydraulic-electric turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, instead chose a 21% higher bid from Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., thus giving some political help to Republican Congressman Hugh Scott (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the coalmen demanded still tougher controls on imports of residual...
...equipment. Also, U.S. makers export far more heavy electric equipment than the U.S. imports-$840 million exported, v. $61 million imported from 1952 to 1957. Private utilities have bought little foreign gear, but the Tennessee Valley Authority last month selected Britain's C. A. Parsons & Co. Ltd. to build a 500,000 kw. turbogenerator-one of the world's biggest-at Tuscumbia, Ala., and said that Parsons is indeed "qualified, technically competent and adequately equipped." Parsons' evaluated bid of $13 million was $6,300,000 below the nearest domestic bidder. TVA found "the import duty...