Word: built
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, Curley has had four previous terms as mayor as well as one session of the Massachusetts governorship and two terms as Congressman in Washington. His past term as mayor was unique in that he passed five months of it in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. Curley has built up a large personal following, though hardly a machine, that will remain solidly behind him next Tuesday. The minimum estimate of his vote is around 80,000 while, if he wins, he will probably poll over...
...thorough engine job. Both front and rear fenders are pared off. Outsize tires on the right side are allowed to help the driver negotiate turns. The cars take a terrific beating but the fact that they seldom have to quit a race seems to indicate how substantially they were built originally and how well they are taken care...
...ventilation they have built two man-size fans, controlled by carbon monoxide detectors, air analyzers, and ink recorders. The ventilating chimney to the surface was one of the hardest parts...
There were fine, luxurious new trains, buses, steamships and airliners built and abuilding. Designer Dreyfuss, who had conceived the New York Central's first modern 20th Century trains, had many a supermodern ocean liner interior on the boards. Designer Teague's cozy lounges, snack bars and dressing rooms were already aloft in Boeing's new Stratocruiser. Not even the U.S. toilet had been neglected. Thanks to Designer Dreyfuss and the Crane Co., it was now available in form-fitting shapes...
...galloping and long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from lethargy to lethal effectiveness in a few short weeks. To replace plane losses, they built spare-parts crates from wrecked machines. Kenney himself invented the low-level parachute-fragmentation bomb and adopted skip bombing as a standard technique against Japanese ships. Once plane and personnel replacements began roll in, the Jap air forces didn't have a chance. One year after his arrival...