Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjoining colony of French Guinea, people feel differently. In the capital city of Conakry, a once sleepy banana port that is now studded with French-built skyscrapers, Premier Sekou Touré thundered a loud "No!" Cried Sekou Touré: "We will vote no to a community which is just the French Union rebaptized, that is to say, old merchandise with a new ticket. Beginning Sept. 29, we will be an independent country. We will take entire and total responsibility for our affairs...
...struck the potholes. The number of breeding places dropped from 10 million to 4,500,000, threatening ruin. What saved the season was the cooperative conservation practices of Canada and the U.S., and of the privately run Ducks Unlimited (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), which alone raised $6,750,000, built 714 small dams and flooded 530 breeding marshes. Re-nesting ducks flocked to the areas, were able to start a second clutch...
...Abilene, where a cool breeze rippled off the dusty West Texas plains, sharp-booted Texans and their women paid due homage to the "West Texas Fair," took in the livestock and the rodeo, then moved eagerly to the midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez...
...Washing Machine. In undeveloped nations, washday means a trek to the nearest stream, where clothes are beaten or scrubbed by hand. To improve on this, the International Cooperation Administration demonstrated a wooden, hand-operated washing machine simple enough to be built by semiskilled workers for $3 on a quantity basis. The washer holds the clothes in a rectangular tub while two plungers, attached to a crossbeam that is operated by hand, force water back and forth through them. ICA plans to send models to its missions around the world...
...Europe," builder Dirk Flentrop explained to an admiring host, "we don't take customers to see our work. We take them to an organ built two hundred years ago. 'See, it still works!' we say. The old way is the best way .... Logic, not electricity...