Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build schools, houses and light industries...
...further suggested that the Soviets' real motives may lie elsewhere. "During the last Berlin crisis, in 1948-9," he commented, "the West lost China to the Communists; this time the Soviets may be attempting to divert us from the Middle East while they build up their position in Iraq...
...industry still had some slack left, but it was not enough to feel really comfortable, and steelmen were thinking of expanding once again. National Steel Corp. Chairman George Magoffm Humphrey and President Thomas E. Millsop announced that they will build the industry's biggest new finishing plant since U.S. Steel Corp. put up the $500 million Fairless Works (TIME...
...acre plot that costs Phillips about $40, he puts in another $400 for development and $600 for promotion. His selling price: $2,000 or more. After a land buyer has paid one-third the cost of his lot, the Phillips organization will provide 100% financing, at 7% interest, to build a house...
Although most banks consider desert building too speculative for loans to individual borrowers, they readily lend to Phillips because of his excellent record. Phillips' companies each year build close to 1,000 homes, most in desert areas, in the $8,000-to-$11,000 price range, and there is no end in sight...