Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turksib Railway, linking Siberia and Turkestan. Nothing was too good for him. Soviet orators praised his lurid past as a frequently jailed I. W. W. roustabout all over the U. S. As the senior U. S. Bolshevik in Russia, beaming Big Bill cried, "We old ones have built this road for you- for young, free Russia! You must remember to work in your turn for the Soviet State! Make it strong and great-not for your sake, but for the sake of all humanity...
...this last bright brown-&-blue-grey picture they saw themselves as they had looked twelve years before, trooping into famed Castle Garden, rowing out to the late Phineas Taylor Barnum's famed Chinese junk Keying which Barnum had built in Hoboken, claimed he had had towed clear from China. On the right a full load of 100 Irish immigrants and baggage, including the box of one "Pat Murfy. For Ameriky," debarked from a three-masted British ship. In this, as in all his work, able Painter Samuel B. Waugh had mixed a slapdash effect with some realism...
...estimated to have an assessed value of $35,000,000. His biggest Depression purchases: February 1931, 36-story building on the site of famed Delmonico's on Fifth Avenue-formerly occupied by the Bank of United States but now the Ruppert Building; January 1932, the 35-story boom-built Commerce Building at Third Avenue and 44th Street...
...Caribbean from Kingston, Jamaica to Barranquilla, Colombia. In their 1,380 flights, no ship has missed either terminal by more than three miles. Out of sight of land for at least six hours, the pilots keep unerringly on course by means of radio equipment privately designed and built by Pan American. Roping South America and the Caribbean (where it serves 31 countries) and criss-crossing Alaska, Pan American planes fly 5,700,000 mi. a year over 25,500 mi. of scheduled routes with an efficiency record of 99.678%. The technical staff has complete case histories on in hurricanes...
...their twin-motored biplane Seafarer they got away neatly from Pendine, Wales. Capt. Moliison, who steered a good course alone over the Atlantic last year (TIME, Aug. 29). steered a good course again. But it was a long, exhausting job. The Seafarer was built for distance, not for speed. When dusk fell a second time the Mollisons were sighted off Connecticut coast. They had made a splendid flight, against headwinds all the way. One hour more and they would land for a tremendous ovation...