Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maybe the boy had overheard his father (and namesake) chaffing me for boasting that I had rowed over twelve thousand miles on the Charles River since the Dam was built. I used to row from that beautiful northeast room of the Newell Boathouse. I'm not as deaf as a post. But I was born in the first half of the 19th century, and we are near the end of the first half of the 20th...
...other nations were willing to disarm because all they had to do was to tear up blueprints, while we actually scrapped battleships. And now, when it seems likely that Japan is exceeding her quota, we haven't even built up to our treaty limit...
Broad-shouldered Oliver Carmichael was self-educated in the schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army...
...flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial Airways, the British Government and Short Bros., famed manufacturer of Britain's famed Empire flying boats, Major Mayo built a seaplane to fit on the back of another (see cut). Last week his seaplanes separated in air for the first time...
...Ferguson Co. of New York and Cleveland has built plants for such firms as General Foods, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, General Electric, U. S. Gypsum, Armstrong Cork. When new building dried up six months ago it sent out 2,200 questionnaires to executives in all types of industry except railways and utilities. Last week it announced that 275 firms, of which only 25 were big, had admitted holding up nearly $200,000,000 worth of industrial construction. Reasons given: 72% blamed the undistributed profits tax, most of the rest blamed uncertainty over Government policies, a negligible few feared labor troubles...