Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what kind of regime they toil under- brought into genial conference the chief exponents of Fascist and Nazi labor: for Italy, Grand...
...Streltsov had built chambers in which he tested the ability of various animals to live at low pressures, translatable into equivalent heights above sea level. Best performers were guinea pigs and turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles...
...boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last fall ordered a defender built for himself alone...
...nationwide system of price maintenance which retards recovery, adds to taxation and hogs unnecessarily large chunks of Government money released for building public works. According to the FTC, Federal and State agencies have been unable to get competitive bids in cement. South Dakota built its own cement mill as the only means of coping with the situation. The Tennessee Valley Authority got competitive bids only by threatening to follow suit...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, 78, widow of New York's famed banker and subway promoter who left an estate of $135,164,000 in 1928; after a heart attack; in the mansion her husband built at Livingston, Va., where his father was a tailor...