Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mirror. Within a few months, Mother Mary was off to Italy, soon became director of Italy's unborn Girls' Town. With her meager funds Mother Mary spent two years searching for the right site. She settled on a tiny hamlet called Borgata Ottavia, near Rome, built a dormitory-schoolhouse. Later she added a simple modern chapel, which was formally inaugurated last week...
Congratulations. Last fall G.E. took the knockout punch. It had brought suit against Manhattan's Masters Inc., whose 44-year-old boss, Stephen Masters, has built a $45 million-a-year discount business, selling everything at 20% to 45% off list. After G.E. won the suit against Masters in New York. Masters opened a mail-order discount business in Washington, D.C., which has no Fair Trade law. Masters offered merchandise for sale anywhere, including Fair Trade states. G.E. sued again, but when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower-court decision in favor of Masters...
...Spreading over 100 square miles in Minas Gerais state, some 200 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, the D'el Rey mines produced only gold for 120 years-and in recent times some heavy deficits for the company's British owners. What magnetized Hanna, which had been built into a $250 million empire by former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, was not the gold heart; it was the iron breast, 2 billion tons of high-grade (60% to 70% pure) ore in the surrounding hills. But getting it was another matter...
...Burnett was not satisfied, t coveted a big auto account because "the industry hasn't been doing a very good job of selling itself to the public, and we felt a lot of new images could be built. He started a campaign of "systematic exposure," put ads in Detroit newspapers announcing his intention to get ah auto account, sent his executives up and down the industry extolling Burnett's services and facilities...
...down to Professor Frankenstein's secret underground laboratory, where there is an enormous refrigerator in which he keeps a big pile of arms, legs, brains and other spare parts collected from passing teenagers. In less time than it takes an ordinary doctor to take a temperature, they have built themselves a real live teen-age monster (Gary Conway) and fed the leftovers to a crocodile that is kept around as a sort of garbage-disposal unit. No sooner does the monster come out of the anesthetic than Professor Frankenstein, in deadly earnest, commands him: "Speak...