Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime boy wonder of Louisiana politics. During the campaign, Morrison's five primary opponents tilted at crime and police corruption, taunted the mayor as "a dictator," whipped up false fears over integration. Confident "Chep" Morrison calmly pointed to the glassy, classy $8,000,000 city hall he built, the miles of Morrison-paved streets, improved garbage collections, New Orleans' impressive new railroad terminal and the 30 buildings added to the city's skyline in a decade (TIME...
...than he paid for his shack. Reason: the new house is one of 13 newly scattered through Cedartown (pop. 10,000) under the first such Government experiment in the U.S. The results may bring a great change in planning for the 80,000 public housing units still to be built...
...scattered Cedartown lots for the one-and two-family houses has been above that of the older housing projects in the area. The building costs of the single houses are cheaper because of prefabricated construction and the fact that no new water, electrical or sewage facilities had to be built. At a cost of $191,972, a total of 20 families are being housed in completely equipped structures with up to four bedrooms and spacious yards. Furthermore, the authority expects that separate houses will be much easier to sell to private buyers, as it hopes to do eventually. Philadelphia...
...Across the Street." The company everyone is watching is what Beech calls the "boys across the street." Cessna's President Dwane Wallace has built a young, eager outfit with plenty of stress on foresight and imagination. At Beech, less than half the executives are pilots; at Cessna, everyone down to middle-management level knows how to fly as well as sell...
...Engineering Co. has leaped to a $12 million annual business with its high-priced ($89,500) twin-engined Aero Commander. When the Air Force bought 15, including one for President Eisenhower, so many companies jumped in with orders that Aero expects to sell about 120 planes this year, has built a $6,250,000 plant to boost production. Prospects are so good that even big military planemakers are moving into the market...