Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Motors built for and last week delivered to President Roosevelt a Pontiac roadster entirely operable by hand, which will carry the President about his Hyde Park estate when he goes there the end of this month...
...Muskogee that his Oklahoma career had begun when he built the town's first big hotel, put up its first skyscraper office building and a $40,000 opera house. There, as age crept upon him, he confined himself to a room in the hotel he had built, played solitaire with a soiled and antiquated pack of cards which measured three inches through...
...Church's great bell rang travelers into town at. nine every night, called Dick Whittington back to become Lord Mayor of London. Slowly its 17th Century Tower built by lamed Sir Christopher Wren gathered new bells. Slowly the twelve gathered green patinas of verdigris, cracked; the clappers rusted, the machinery clogged. The Tube under the church shook the steeple dangerously. In 1928. after 250 years, the Bow bells fell silent...
...cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing...
Half a million solid gold Russian rubles ($250,000) soothed Viceroy Li's palm before he consented to a means by which Russia might build her imperialistic railway across what was after all part of China. Created was a dummy Russo-Chinese Bank which built the railway chiefly frorn the proceeds of bonds sold to small, thrifty Frenchmen who, 37 years after, are still screaming for their money...