Search Details

Word: built (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...supercharging, unquestionably one of the greatest advances in store for air transportation, requires special design and construction. It is now under development, and will be first introduced by the Boeing 307 stratoliners that are currently in production for airline service. No other supercharged, sealed cabin commercial transport has been built in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Although keeping four Scottish homes, Lord Bute and ancestors have long concentrated their financial interests in Welsh coal mines, which now pay about $545,000 a year and for which the Government will give $10,000,000 when they are nationalized. To handle the coal, the Crichton-Stuarts built most of Cardiff's enormous docks. But even more lucrative of late have been the family's vast Cardiff real-estate holdings, from which $750,000 yearly in long-term leases was gleaned. Docks and real estate were both included in the sale-20,000 houses, the Cardiff Shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Castle Collector | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...reason Solomon's port remained so long hidden is that it is a half-mile inland from the present coast. The prevailing winds from the north carry heavy burdens of sand, which have built up the shore and extended it slowly southward into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...people are contented and peaceful. The seem to have plenty of money, food, and work. The lack of excitement amazed me. Franco has increased wages, and built slum clearance projects. I personally saw men being tried according to established judicial procedure," stated Forbes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBES BACKS FRANCO IN SPANISH STRUGGLE | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum Institute in April stated that 2,600,000 barrels a day (except for California, which has no proration laws) would be about right. The States east of California have actually been producing almost 2,700,000 barrels. As a result, refineries have built up immense inventories- 92,000,000 barrels of gasoline in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mr. Boggs's Ultimatum | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | Next