Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican, was called from the room to answer the telephone, returned flustered, mysteriously called off the hearings. Last week onetime (1939-1942) Kansas Republican Governor Payne Ratner, a nervous, nose-grooming witness, partly explained what had happened. As Hoffa's attorney, he had visited Smith, used the leverage built up when Smith was state highway department counsel under Governor Ratner. ¶ As chairman of the Teamsters' Central Conference, Hoffa approved payment of $114,719 in salaries for four Teamster officials serving prison sentences. Furthermore, over a four-year period he approved a staggering $625,726 in legal fees...
KNCU's five-story headquarters in the town of Moshi is in itself a symbol of the Chagga's progress. Built around a flowering courtyard of bougainvillaea and poinsettia, it not only houses offices and auction rooms, but also one of Tanganyika's few public libraries. Soon KNCU hopes to build a $15,000 community center for plays, concerts, art and agricultural exhibits...
...facts, reported by Dr. David G. Doherty of the Atomic Energy Commission's famed Oak Ridge National Laboratory: several compounds built around S, 2-aminoethylisothiuronium (or AET) have been given to rats and mice, monkeys and dogs. Then the animals have been exposed to radiation. Figuring that 400 r. (see SCIENCE) will kill half the animals or human beings exposed to it, Researchers Doherty and Raymond Shapira doubled the dose. Whereas all untreated animals died, nearly all those given a suitable dose of AET survived...
...RICH ALGERIA will get its first refinery, and it will be North Africa's biggest yet (daily capacity: some 40,000 bbl.). Plant will be built, probably near Algiers, by combine of Mobil Oil, Standard Oil (N.J.), Shell, British Petroleum and three French firms...
What the recession proved was that the built-in stabilizers of the U.S. economy have become stronger and more effective. Unemployment benefits have been widely extended, and payments have doubled since 1954 to $5 billion annually; the unemployed in some states now draw up to $60 a week. Gains have been made in old-age benefits, social security, retirement programs, and aid to the needy. Even more important, the U.S. economy has grown so huge and so diversified that a slump in one section, as in autos, can be largely counteracted by a rise in another, such...