Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...till this fall wc used to rather pride ourselves on our well-built boxes for mail, but this winter Mr. Farley has decided to put us back where we were 32 years ago and take away R.F.D. from the oldest route in Maine...
...remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...
...Davison's anthem, "O Gladsome Light," was written in memory of Gustav Holst, who died last year, and was a personal friend of Dr. Davison, and through him, of the Harvard Glee Club. Somewhat reminiscent of Holst in its harmonic treatment, this anthem, sung by the Glee Club alone, built up an intensity of feeling which blazed out into a magnificent climax in the last verse...
...machine part that it can turn out is the carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...shop in Lodge Alley, Philadelphia in 1831. His first locomotive, "Old Ironsides," weighed five tons, had to be taken out of the shop through a hole in the wall. It could run the six miles from Philadelphia to Germantown in twelve minutes-in good weather. In 1849 Matthias Baldwin built the "Governor Paine" which worked up a speed of 60 m.p.h. on the new Vermont Central Railroad. Baldwin locomotives puffed through the Civil War, through the lusty era of Westward expansion, through the Spanish-American War until, during the World War, 300 per month were being produced. With Depression railroad...