Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Is the Best." The graceful rocket strained on its launcher as its engines built thrust. It lifted in grandeur in the morning sun, trailing a white-hot fire that looked like an inverted candle flame. Seconds after lifting-first slowly, then ever faster-Vanguard's farewell roar reverberated over the Cape in a blanket of sound. Half a mile from the pad, Canaveral men cheered: "Go, baby, go! Keep going, baby! Don't quit, baby...
...Blessed Are the Rich. Although the National Farmers Union is the champion of the "poor" and the "small" farmer, the man who built the N.F.U. is by no means embarrassed by its wealth. Says N.F.U. President Patton: "I do not think it is blessed to be poor, at least not in the U.S. I've been poor, and I didn't see anything blessed about...
...live!") Paar had hardly launched himself as NBC's bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...
...activity is 1% ahead of 1957. Department-store sales are down slightly, mainly because of bad weather. But at Atlanta's hard-selling Rich's department store, sales are even with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief." says Southern Co. President Harlee Branch Jr., whose company still has record demand for electric power, "when I get away from those damned pessimistic New Yorkers...
...eased. In London last week a Soviet trade mission announced one of its biggest catches to date. With Rustyfa, a combine of British companies, the Russians placed an equipment order of between $28 million and $42 million for one of the biggest tire factories outside the U.S. To be built at Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, the plant will turn out 2,000,000 tires a year...