Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named anything else but "Spirit of St. Louis, 2nd"-and the succeeding planes he has built for himself, "Spirit of St. Louis, 3d-4th-" etc? The city of St. Louis sponsored his epoch-making flight and this generous, far-sighted act is responsible for all of the glory which has immortalized the man and his achievement...
Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...Ryan became president of the Amalgamated. Next year he dealt with Montana copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after a proper interval he became president, then chairman, of Anaconda. During little more than ten years he has built the company's assets up to more than half a billion dollars. It produces 15% of the world's copper each year, and is the world's largest producer of silver...
George Remus came to the U. S. from Germany at the age of four. He made himself a lawyer, specializing in divorce cases and defense of gangsters. Then he took up the bootlegging racket in Cincinnati, became the richest U. S. 'legger, built himself a $1,000,000 mansion with a Grecian swimming pool, murdered his wife, Imogene. He conducted his own defense, insulted Prosecutor Charles Phelps Taft II in court, was found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity (TIME...
...opening show, the Pennsylvania Museum exhibited several loan collections of an interesting but not startling nature. It will require many years before the magnificent edifice, built upon Greek lines out of polychromatic stones, can secure paintings which justify either its exterior or the panegyrics lavished upon it by onetime Senator Pepper and Philadelphian news-sheets...