Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese built the 450-ton Panay, designed especially to protect U. S. shipping from Chinese river pirates on the Yangtze. She was launched at Shanghai in 1927. Last week she lay in the river at Nanking, taking off U. S. Embassy secretaries, Standard Oilmen, correspondents, cameramen and other U. S. citizens who had dared to stay on until the last moment before Nanking's fall (see col. 2). Her job done and shells coming far too close for comfort, the Panay moved away, anchored beside three Standard Oil ships in a more peaceful spot, 27 miles upstream from...
...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...Brancusi. Gargallo, who died in 1934, was a blacksmith whose skill with metals helped him to do some of the most intricate abstractions in modern sculpture. His bronze, Prophet (see cut), was a figure constructed half of metal and half of empty space, as a piece of music is built of sound and silence. Brancusi's work was represented by a torso composed of three softly melting cylinders and a bust, Mile Pogany, showing the subject as geometry in meditation...
...official leadership they hit upon another new face, Colby Mitchell Chester, who had not only grown to national stature during Depression but also brought a new and needed viewpoint to the N.A.M. council table-that of consumer industries. Unlike his N.A.M. predecessor, the late Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who built million-dollar ships for a few billion-dollar customers, Colby Chester sells packaged groceries by the billions of units to millions of units to millions of U. S. housewives. He does business with the public and values public opinion as he values his business life...
...powerful dynamo generating nothing," her crotchets finally became almost surrealistic. She bought a hideous house at Brighton, spent $250,000 to remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half...