Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coperthwaite tries to simplify the technique of yurt-construction continually, with the goal of making it possible for anyone to build...
...School of Education's approval of his proposal to build the yurt surprised and pleased him, and the reaction of the staff and students to the unusual structure has been favorable, Coperthwaite said. William J. Reilly, business manager of the Ed School said, "It would certainly solve my space needs if I could...
...foremost driver; so off he went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working his way up to Grand Prix competition. But he always wanted to build as well as drive...
Their goal is a 1,165-square-mile area off the offshore continental shelf, where natural gas is being tapped under water as deep as 600 feet. A collection of 100 offshore drilling rigs, some of them as tall as a 40-story building, are working on leases for which they have paid the federal government alone some $1.2 billion. Pushing slowly out to meet them are complex pipelaying barges that cost as much as $8,000,000 to build and $38,000 a day to operate. The area is "exploding with action," says William C. Keefe, president of Houston...
...sixth largest industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell to build a single, cooperative system...