Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston Satterlee, silver-bearded lawyer and brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. Designed and built in 1915 by Henry M. Crane, now technical adviser to the president of General Motors, the Crane Simplex makes better than ten miles per gallon, can build up a speed of 68 m.p.h. and has all its important original parts except a set of pistons and a rear axle drive...
Three years of concentrated study upon the monkeys produced little in the way of results. No maze built was sturdy enough to confine them when aroused, and the use of hunger as a punishment for misdemeanors merely infuriated them...
...Corporation at the same time voted to establish an endowment fund which would eventually support both the intercollegiate and intramural sports. This would be built up by private donations, profits of the H.A.A., and a yearly contribution from the College...
...opening of "the world's greatest cosmetics factory"-the new $600,000 studio of Max Factor. Pudgy, 61-year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since at 13 he left a Russian synagog school to become an apprentice make-up boy in a traveling opera troupe. He built a cosmetics factory in Russia, exhibited in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again from scratch in Los Angeles shortly afterward. Friendly, willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis...
...requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint of profiteering in our escutcheon." He built himself a million-dollar, 100-room residence at Fairfield, Conn., and the company, rapidly expanding, acquired Page Steel & Wire Co. and two small steel companies, sources of raw material...