Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really exciting. Seven volumes chipped on huge blocks of ice with a primitive axe blade. Then I'd give them this story about the great migration of Nanook's people. All about how they crossed the Bering Strait on rafts into Siberia and built these huge cities with walls of solid ice. What a civilization--and the girls swallowed...
...unpacked. Many appliances are unnecessarily hard to service. The company found one hand iron that took 40 minutes to take apart. Some modern toasters are riveted clear around, require $2.50 worth of labor before the serviceman can even get to the works, much less repair them. Many so-called "built-in" ranges and washer-dryer combinations are nothing more than standard, movable appliances with the casters removed, made to be serviced from the rear. When built in, they cannot be serviced without tearing them out from the wall. Says Detroit Edison's Service Boss William R. Milby: More companies...
...Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers. He opened a shipyard in Norfolk, Va., built 18 more tankers, flourished mightily during and after World...
...Arabia's King Ibn Saud. Aside from the yacht, Ludwig's only hobby is making money. To that end, he once ordered his designers to work out a way to carry oil in tankers' big hollow masts. When this proved impractical, Ludwig simply ordered his ships built from then on with no masts at all-just pipes to carry navigation lights...
...villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with all her built-in conveniences, becoming a technological unemployee...