Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt, got that onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each & every contract. Also announced last week was the Navy's 16-ship building program in its own yards. Brooklyn and Philadelphia each got a light cruiser order. Two destroyers each were to be built at Boston. Philadelphia, Norfolk, Puget Sound and Mare Island. Two gunboats and two submarines completed the construction list...
...Operator Nettie Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...
...play-off (two games out of three), Allen won, 50-28, 50-27. He had established a world's record, throwing 73.5% ringers in the tournament. A farmer until recently when he got a job with a transfer company, he is a shy, sandy-haired, well-built fellow with a missing tooth. Now 24, he has been pitching half his life, throws a soft lead shoe with 1¼ turns, takes time out during matches to remove splinters from the shoes (lead shoes often splinter) with a file he always carries in his pocket...
Petrofabrics. Whether terrestrial or cosmic, the forces that built the Alps tied them into complicated kinks. Bruno Sander, a native of the Austrian Tyrol and professor at the University of Innsbruck, described his method of studying the kinks. Specimens of crystalline rock were ground to paper thinness, peered at under the microscope where the force lines spring to view. By plotting hundreds of force lines from different parts of a mountain, he deduces the slidings and thrustings that formed the mountain. He calls his method petrofabrics, thinks it may prove useful in locating ore veins...
Travers was an architect. He built vulgar edifices for the masses, which made him money and a reputation but somehow did not satisfy him. Travers was also a bit fuzzy. Returning from a trip to the U. S. he is met by his pretty young wife at Liverpool. Travers wanders off to buy a book, becomes innocently involved in a street brawl, is taken in tow by a mysterious florist in the pay of the internationally omnipotent Lord Snarge...