Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iron is now hot. Attacks on the Social Security Act, and more particularly on the unwieldy reserve fund which is already accumulating, have built up the all-important political atmosphere. Appalled by the spectre of $47,000,000,000 falling into the hands of American Senators and Representatives, economists and political scientists have led the movement to revise the Act itself, and so successful has this movement been that political expediency now demands compliance. Realizing this fact, a New Deal advisory heard, the Social Security Council, has been examining ways and means of revision, and recently recommended more liberal benefits...
Victor Ehler, who has been pulling the rope of the Chapel bell every morning since the building was built eight years ago, estimates that he has made the bell ring more than 300,000 times. He always wears gloves, he says, to avoid getting hemp splinters in his hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower...
...five of the world's most remarkable airplanes, the Boeing 314 flying boats for transoceanic service (another is already completed). Forty-two-ton monsters each as high as a two-story house and as powerful as 6,000 horses, the four-motored ships are the largest ever built for commercial service. Last week in Manhattan, Pan American Airways President Juan T. Trippe announced that his company's purchase of these six Boeings had been financed like ordinary railroad cars by the first full-fledged aviation equipment trust certificates...
There, on an acre of soil-tested land apiece, 60 modern houses will be built-a two-bedroom size at $4,500, three-bedroom at $5,300. Total cost for the 60 families will be $300,000, financed jointly by the workers, Armco and FHA. To keep costs down, the 60 are now forming their own building company...
Since Fertile Valley Homesteads will be made of prefabricated steel built by Armco, the company is in effect developing a new outlet for its products. Armco is thus following the lead of big U. S. Steel Corp., which since last September has been stamping out prefabricated steel parts for a similar housing development at Clairtown, Pa. near its vast new Irvin Works...