Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members last week were thoroughly tarred by Fascist brushes with the expected war. Mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto was hoisted aloft on banners as an inspiration to the troops. Out of his Quirinal Palace bustled King Vittorio Emanuele III. His $250,000 Fascist-built private train, far more modern and luxurious than that possessed by any of the world's emperors, waited with steam up and all blinds down to speed the Little King northward for maneuvers. Next day His Majesty was at Trento, sham war base of the "Blue" army, and Benito Mussolini arrived later at Bolzano, base...
...simpler terms, U. S. citizens who favor a Socialist United States built by ballots are to be humored and cajoled into aiding Communists whose aim is to forge a Socialist Soviet United States by violence and bring it into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Washington would then stand in the same relation to Moscow as Kiev which today is the obedient capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic...
Snapped an aide-de-camp of Governor General de Bono: "Anybody who thinks Mussolini is only bluffing should ride over the strategic highways and bridges we have built and are building. Italy does not spend millions and bring 125,000 men to Africa for bluff...
...George Morrow remarked: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten." At that time the statement was true. The Brothers Morrow, having migrated to Manhattan from a farm near Toronto, had taken a hand in Gold Dust Corp., been enormously successful in revamping American Cotton Oil Co., had built up an enviable reputation as smart corporate reorganizers. After 1929 the Morrows were once set back on their heels when United Cigar Stores, which they controlled, went bankrupt. But their troubles with United Cigar did not prevent them from acquiring another damaged retail chain last year, McLellan Stores (TIME...
Shortly before the turn of the century, the last frontiersmen surged through the plains and valleys of Oregon in a vast tidal movement without precedent in U. S. history. Cities and railroads were built before the Indians had been pacified; industrialization was developed before the country was fully explored; the passage of history that in other sections of the West was spread over generations was here compressed into little more than a decade. Last week Harold L. Davis won the seventh $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with a story laid in this period of Oregon history...