Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report that the "government-owned fleet, now being operated by the Shipping Board can be sold, and American companies can operate them successfully" comes, therefore as welcome news to most citizens. The problem of disposal of the vast fleet built to carry troops and supplies to France has ever been a pressing one and has never been solved. Government operation has been carried on at a considerable loss. Private companies have hesitated to assume the risks incident to ocean navigation. This fact is indeed the best commentary on the real status of the American merchant marine...
During the winter of 1924 the explorer's ship was icebound and covered with snow. The party built three snow-houses on top of the ship and to these Esquimaux visited all during the winter to see the white man's moving picture, to hear the white man's radio and victrola, and to eat the white man's food...
...play. But there can be no question that the production given it last night by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the direction of Mr. Edward Massey is extraordinarily memorable and stirring. Mr. Massey has approached this difficult production frankly from the point of view of musical comedy. He has built up jazz, noise, excitement, into a simple and perfectly synchronized whole. The settings, done by Mr. Dos Passos himself, are brilliantly successful. As concerns the acting, there are many good performances, and a few extremely bad ones--but this is overshadowed by the imaginative power with which the director...
Sixth Tongue. Emerged one of the professionals from the ship owners' meeting, declared that Mr. O'Connor's $20 would not enable U. S. firms to compete with other nations except Great Britain; would perpetuate the existing difference between wages paid on Government-built boats and those paid on other U. S. boats...
...athletic authorities combined with the leadership of the present coaching personnel has instilled this much needed confidence; and speed has been the result. On the basis of a sound rowing technique and a sound rowing psychology Harvard's hopes for victory on the Thames in June may be built high...