Word: built
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flares. Splashing through cold, tumbling waves, 18 of the plane's 20 passengers safely reached two life rafts they had managed to launch before the aircraft sank. But two enlisted men disappeared before their companions could reach them through the swells. Crowded aboard two rafts built to hold only six men apiece, the survivors settled down to the bruising, salt-sprayed hours of waiting...
...Communists have even penetrated the colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five...
Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
...tour over and the debt paid, 22-year-old Rafael was appointed resident conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1942, two years after his father's death, he was promoted to permanent conductor. Since then, young Kubelik has built the Czech orchestra from 85 to 120 pieces, raised its critical rating from fair to excellent...
...Congressional hearings on the Navy's revolt against unification-that atom bombs are not so destructive. They are extremely destructive, said the AEC report. The report considered only the effects of bombs like the one exploded at 1,800 feet over Hiroshima. Better bombs have been built, but the old ones were effective enough to make the AEC's case...