Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplanes (instead of the 7,000 mentioned fortnight ago), provision in the War Department Appropriation bill (now being drafted) to equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built (see p. 19). He announced he had ordered a survey of all Federal lands and plants capable of being used toward Rearmament. Mentioned specifically were a War-time armorplate plant in West Virginia and the old New Orleans Navy Yard. The latter might serve the newly-formed Atlantic Squadron...
That the lighter-than-air idea lives is due in part to a tanned, square-cut naval officer who believes in airships. Having served on or commanded two big dirigibles built for and lost by the U. S. Navy, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl continues to preach in interviews, books, Congressional testimony that helium-filled airships are safe, efficient transports, scouting craft, airplane carriers...
...These words, spoken by Disracli (Miles Mander) as he becomes Prime Minister, are the climax of "Suez," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Yet if the doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience is too far away to see any of the sweat and suffering and sorrow that went into the canal. Instead, Tyrone...
...strangers to trouble are the menfolk of the Stuart family. They are built for it. Jesse is over six feet, weighs 202 lb. His brother James, also a writer and schoolteacher, is 6 ft. 4 in., an expert marksman reputed to be able to fire a shot, toss up the empty cartridge and split it in midair. His grandpa Mitch Stuart was involved in a lifelong feud with the Houndshells, in which both Houndshells and Stuarts were killed...
Last week 86-year-old Uncle Marion Stuart, who lives at Twelve Pole, W. Va., heard of Jesse's troubles. Uncle Marion, celebrated by Jesse because he killed his last man at 81, dug a well at 83, and built a house to retire in at 85, wrote to Jesse: "Have they caught the fellow who jumped you? If they haven't, I'll be along presently and help you bring him to justice...