Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large chunks of their usual big-city vote in civil-rights-conscious areas in the November election, both Democrats and Republicans from the North and the West were ready to combine politics with principle by finding a way to change the Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats feared civil rights less than they did a rule change. As the fight readied, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland got together with opposing forces...
...Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, decided to try an end run in the debate, based on the idea that the Senate should adopt its rules at the opening of each session-which it has never done. This done, the insurgents could then have a crack at killing the built-in filibuster before the rule could be accepted. But as all Senators knew, such tampering with Senate rules attacks the long-accepted philosophy that the Senate is a continuing body (because it re-elects only one-third of its members at a time...
...profit margin high. Meanwhile his two brothers were uncommonly successful in a variety of enterprises, including the country's largest tobacco exporting firm. Another money-making deal involved the new Delmas Road leading out of Port-au-Prince; real-estate records show that before the road was built Magloire and his cronies bought up big blocks of the land along each side. And as the stories began to come out, dozens of businessmen stepped forward to confess that profit-sharing with the President had been for years the only way to operate...
...submarines to launch such missiles will have to be specially built and unusually big. The Navy has not revealed how the missiles will be stowed on board. They may be carried in firing position in vertical cells, or, if this is too awkward, they may be carried lying down and be raised toward the vertical by a launching mechanism. The missile-subs will be nuclear-powered so they can hide off an enemy coast for months before loosing their missiles. The first such submarine especially designed to fire the Polaris will be launched in four or five years...
...ROAD POLICY, now being debated in Washington, may bail out recently built state turnpikes that are financial flops, raise value of depressed turnpike bonds. New plan would link turnpikes into $33.5 billion U.S. highway program, have Government reimburse states for their costs. Kansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky are hoping to unload some turnpikes onto federal network, possibly turn toll roads into free U.S. highways...