Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President went swimming in the glass-enclosed pool, drove over the red-clay Georgia roads in a brand-new Ford touring car (license: FDR). In Gainesville, he took his first ride in one of the new cars which he will henceforth use when exhibiting himself to crowds . Specially built 16-cylinder, nine-passenger Cadillacs, they have handles on the windshield for Secret Service men, a stock of tear gas bombs in a compartment behind the driver's seat. Floor space behind the compartment contains plenty of room for the President to lie down in, in case anyone starts shooting...
...lines dry in an effort to learn what Herr Hitler said to Mr. Hoover but their best unconfirmed information was that the Chancellor had given Listener Hoover a roseate picture of the Nazi regime and Listener Hoover had finally broken in to say testily that, in effect, "Naziism is built on principles of government that it would be wholly impossible for the people of the United States to tolerate in their own country...
...Peking-Hankow railway, and last week the war was going great guns in the U-shaped area these roads make with "China's Hindenburg Line." This is not a closely coordinated system of defenses like the French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole rail link down which Soviet munitions...
...brought him $40,000 more. (He and his family own a comfortable 51% of National Dollar stock; most of the rest is owned in small lots by various less affluent Chinese.) He has one daughter at Columbia, another at Stanford, a son at a preparatory school, and he has built a school for some 350 children in the Cantonese village in China where his father was born. He lives in a large stucco house in Oakland. He has five cars. He is a Shriner and a 32nd degree Mason...
...Young People's Religious Union, high school group here for a religious rally, were particularly impressed by the fact that Stoughton had been built with the proceeds of a lottery...