Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole wardroom. I was a very unpopular young officer for that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed a lieutenant-he built up a steady professionalism that led him to his first command, the destroyer Hopkins. "I made a beauty out of the Hopkins," he said. "I brought her up in appearance and gunnery. A friend of mine, the first lieutenant of the Langley [the Navy's first aircraft carrier], helped...
...development at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for three years under the code name of Project Rover. The first experimental engine, the Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is scheduled for testing in Nevada late this year, and an elaborate test setup is being built at Jackass Flats, a safe 20 miles (and many mountains) west of the Atomic Energy Commission's main test base...
...market without quotas or controls. Other sugar-men fear that heavier production would force prices down. But Lobo argues that the industry should find new uses for sugar, thus attract new industry into Cuba's one-commodity economy. Thanks largely to his campaign, several plants are now being built in Cuba to produce such sugar byproducts as wallboard, newsprint and plastics...
...first city-to-city flight, a hop of 17 miles from Chålons-sur-Marne to Reims. One of the first designers to utilize such basic devices as the aileron and floats for hydroplanes, he set up his own factories before World War I. In 1917 he built the Goliath, prototype of big passenger airliners and inaugurator of cross-Channel commercial service; by 1932 he had built a monoplane hermetically sealed for the stratosphere...
...plot from here on resembles something built of blocks by a small boy, and then partly destroyed by his dog. Ambrose is deviled by a beautiful lady biochemist, a drug-taking mystic and an evil-looking chauffeur. Someone tries to mash him with a big black car. A tribe of monkeys is mislaid and a corpse or two are discovered. A tappy old duchess who collects causes starts to lecture on the class war at a workers' meeting, absentmindedly switches to a harangue on the dangers of premature burial...