Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collision seemed likely to reopen an old controversy over the 8-in.-gun cruisers of which the Chicago is one of ten. When the first eight were built, in conformity with the London Naval Treaty, five of them had to be altered because of sternpost trouble. They were severely criticized by Admiral William Veazie Pratt, naval adviser at the 1930 London Conference, who called some of them "tin clad" because their gun turrets were not fully protected with steel plates. But Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of operations, last week explained that the Chicago's turrets were...
Moscow has never had a golf course. Soviet sports writers-earnest, class-conscious scribes-have often stigmatized the game as "hopelessly bourgeois." Abruptly last week the Soviet State announced that a Moscow golf course will be built at once, in the frozen dead of winter "to be ready for play by spring." Flags marking the Soviet holes will be red. Instead of crying "Fore!", Red golfers will shout "Davai!" (Russian for "Give!", i. e. "Give...
...They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill-surrounded capital which President Kemal has built at a cost of more than $75,000,000. He never felt safe at Istanbul, too easily menaced by the Great Powers' war boats...
More than 1,000 mi. of new railways have been built, copper and gold mines brought into production and the Government is buying tractors and developing agriculture on a near-Soviet scale...
...bankers round up enough money. In Friedrichshafen the LZ-129 bigger than the Macon and twice as big as the Graf Zeppelin, has its skeleton nearly complete. In Akron the designing staff of Goodyear-Zeppelin is working on plans for a similar commercial ship to be built there and operated alternately with LZ-129 But bankers and builders know that no service will start without assurance of substantial U. S. mail subsidies...