Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between selling annuities and letter-carrying: Social Security payments will be far smaller than its tax collections for many years. In 1938 collections will exceed actual payments by $480,000,000. This money will be invested in Government bonds and if a $40,000,000,000 reserve should be built up as anticipated, the Government might eventually owe its whole public debt to its prospective pensioners. It was this that Alf Landon last fall called a "cruel hoax" on the workers of America...
...Phil La Follette been a Tory Governor, the outcry from U. S. Liberals would undoubtedly have been prodigious, for along with his smooth exterior and the careful polish which has removed all trace of his native Queen City, Mo.. Glenn Frank has. with facile tongue and pen, built up for himself a shining reputation as a clear-sighted, forward-looking, modern-minded Thinker...
...premiere was set for Dec. 23, 1935. First thing that happened was that the stage required costly reinforcement with steel beams. It then became necessary to excavate beneath the stage to build a place to move Mr. Bel Geddes' great blocks of scenery. The stage was built on solid rock...
...Hotel.* Invidiously balanced against a paragraph pointing out that Peter Arrell Brown Widener II's fortune was established by his grandfather, the Record reported that James Harvey Gravell started to make a rustproof paint preparation in 1914 with nothing but "a bucket, a broomstick and a good idea," built up a $1,250,000 business with branches in Detroit and Walkerville...
With the number of cases of grippe among undergraduates already exceeding the capacity of Stillman, the need for a larger and more modern infirmary once again becomes glaringly apparent. Dr. Bock's recent report emphasizing past embarrassment and ineffectiveness has as yet produced no results. Built in 1903, one of the first institutions of its kind in the country, Stillman has passed through its period of usefulness and has become antiquated by progress along architectural and medical lines...