Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's entire current rearmament bill, is being spent for fighting aircraft alone. Vice President Howard S. Welch of Bendix Aviation Corp. figured that 62,349 serviceable planes exist today, about one-third of them war planes, and that in 1937 an additional 28,500 planes are being built, four-fifths of them war planes...
...expensive luxury" dies hard. Today the sort of German capitalists who financed Adolf Hitler in the first place are in panic at his "inflexible resolve" that they shall offer the German folk a volkswagen at a folksy price. Thus far 30 second-stage "experimental volkswagen" have been built in Germany after testing three first-stage experimental models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder, 23 h. p. Opel offered by General Motors German subsidiary at 1,450 marks. By special permission of newlywed Netherlands Crown Princess...
Died. Goldie Balaban Levin, 67, mother of Chicago's seven Balaban brothers (President Barney of Paramount Pictures Inc., Harry, Elmer, John, David, A. J. and the late Max), who rented their first motion picture theatre with her $500 capital, built up the $20,000,000 Balaban & Katz chain; after brief illness; in Miami...
...centre span pending restoration of the safety net, more than half of which was torn away in the crash. Costing $82,000, it had saved eleven workers up to last week. Prior to last week only one life had been lost building this bridge. The San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, built without a net, cost 24 lives...
...years immemorial before that, his teams and those of Eddie Farrell took the honors. But last season, after one of the best balanced teams in Harvard history, graduation took more than its usual toll, and the result has been that the structure of the team is being built up from the bottom; and another result is that for the first time in the history of the meet the track team will walk onto the Garden Boards Saturday night not only not the favorite to successfully defend its title, but expected by many to end up in last place...