Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen new bridges of concrete and steel...
...their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet Government get a firm restraining hand on this fat traffic. This treaty gave the Japanese exclusive rights to certain waters, especially those near the canneries they had built on Russian soil. It kept them absolutely out of other bays, inlets and river mouths. It required Japanese bidders to buy and deposit Russian bonds as security. Later, with the yen still at par (50?) and the ruble an unknown quantity in foreign exchange (although having an official gold parity value...
...last week carpenters had built a small replica of Peiping's great open air Altar of Heaven with its ceremonial steps. Ready, too, was an imperial throne of ebony, carved with dragons and orchids. Tailors embroidered robes of imperial yellow and jewelers had carved a Ju Yee or sceptre of jade. Since meteorologists announced that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom...
...than that of Tammen and his struggles to breed a baby elephant for his circus, the Sells-Floto; and the final fate of the last, stuffed, baby pachyderm, which Tammen kept in a case in the Post offices, is told with fine pathos. The remarkable paper which the partners built comes in likewise for a good share of the author's effort. Here in relation of the almost unbelievable productions of the Bonfils-Tammen journalism, are rare gems...
...accomplished by parliamentary methods, because "fundamental social reform" means public ownership, he obviously regards the attempt as part of the pathology of political science. After one year of churning and fuming, and after Mr. Johnson's conference, the measurable results are only these, that the administration has built up a large and unsanctioned machinery for the control of industry, that it must either abandon the machinery, or resort, as Mr. Johnson threatens, to the fascist (or the communist) dictatorship that can sanction it. POLLUX