Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extend the fearful shadow of atomic war to the British and the French, to the people of Western Germany, to the peoples of all countries who have been bound hand and foot by military commitments to the U.S. and who have allowed American atomic and rocket bases to be built on their territory. One must be blind not to see in our time the dangerous consequences...
...Built by Danish slave traders in 1661, it became an official residence of the British Governor General, then Nkrumah...
...these materials are byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and their sudden drop in price is due to a big new plant that AEC has built in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to purify them. Some of the market possibilities: atomic batteries, radiation sterilization of surgical supplies, large-scale chemical processing, light sources...
...aides traveled thousands of miles through Brazil's back country; they studied 2,000 bat colonies, marked thousands of bats with dyes to learn their habits. They clocked the bats' flight (33 m.p.h.), and studied how bats find their victims by echolocation. Dr. Ruschi built a bat grotto at his museum to observe at close range their living, biting and eating habits. He determined that it takes 5,000 cattle to support an average colony of 50,000 vampire bats...
...films showed nothing at all, indicating that the ancient stone was fairly sound. A lifting cradle was built around it and a powerful crane hoisted it gingerly out of the ground, doing in a few minutes the job that a tribe of skin-clad men had done with panting slowness 3,000 years...