Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator's order a fleet of Italian superliners has been built during the past eight years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly...
...London, Berlin, Rome. When the Shenandoah's crash was laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work on meteorology and radio communications, resigned from the Navy to join the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. he, with Dr. Karl Arnstein who built 70 German dirigibles, turned out the Akron and the Macon. He will continue as consultant for Goodyear when he takes up his M.I.T. post this autumn...
...Contrary to popular belief, this board was not a War creation. It came into being Sept. 7, 1916 as a means of building up a U. S. merchant fleet. When War did come, it established a subsidiary known as Emergency Fleet Corp. (later changed to Merchant Fleet Corp.) which built and operated ships of every description. During its life the Shipping Board and its subsidiary received $3,652,991,915.13 in appropriations, had a book value of $288,523,053 at last report. Fleet Corp. built 2,316 vessels, lost 70, scrapped 18, sold 1,825 and ended up owning...
...scene of battle is reached, just as racehorses are vanned to meets. The actual ''marching" time was three days; on foot it would have taken six days. The horses rode eight to a trailer, standing sidewise with hay to munch in their traveling stalls which soldiers had built for them out of the Fort Bliss junkyard...
...misadventure he had. He bought the bonds of Hinsdale County, Colo., and tried to get people to go there as a resort. To that end he built a group of luxurious cabins in an old mining settlement, invited people from far & wide to come as his guests. Then he was charged with conspiring with officials of the County to buy up its bonds at 30? on the dollar and get them refunded dollar for dollar. He was to have gone on trial on that charge Aug. 11. He did not, because Governor Landon ordered his arrest...