Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wholesale and What's in It for Me? (because "their principal character, a smart-guy Jew, is enough to rouse anti-Semitic sentiments in a rabbi"-TIME, Dec. 26) ; the withdrawal of Richard Simon's Miniature Photography (because "it commends some German-built cameras"-TIME, Dec. 26) ; and the boycott of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh book, Listen! the Wind! by the New Hyde Park library club (because of Colonel Lindbergh's acceptance of a Nazi decoration-TIME, Jan. 16) is just as bad as burning books in a public square. The difference is in method only...
...legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
...James atmospherically authentic, Director Henry King spared no expense. When he learned that the courthouse in Liberty, Mo., real home of the James boys, had been torn down, he flew over the Ozarks looking for a village where an old courthouse was still standing. Spying one at Pineville, he built oldtime false fronts over its modern stores, covered its concrete streets with dirt, hired dozens of its citizens as extras...
...caused by this unheard-of price made Jacob Ruppert a magic name in baseball. In 1923, after a squabble, he bought out Partner Huston for $1,200,000. Same year he opened the $2,500,000 Yankee Stadium. He paid record salaries ($80,000 to Babe Ruth one season), built up the most extensive, most expensive chain of farm teams in the country...
Assen Jordanolf, at 18, built the first airplane in Bulgaria. Year later he was a Bulgarian War ace, flying on the Salonika front. When the War ended, and the Neuilly treaty left Bulgaria one plane, he flew that until it was wrecked by a hurricane. In 1921 he heard that $1,000,000 was waiting in the U. S. for anyone who would fly around the world. He came over to collect...