Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been high, saw little reason to change their estimates. Although the Egyptian air force, according to R.A.F. estimates, outnumbered available "allied" aircraft two to one. it managed to mount only two fighter sorties against the British and French during the entire campaign. Some of Nasser's 50 Soviet-built Ilyushin bombers-perhaps as many as half-were believed to have been flown off to Saudi Arabia and Syria before the Anglo-French air attacks began, but much of his air force was caught on the ground. The British and French claimed to have destroyed 200 Egyptian aircraft and damaged...
...whom the Opposition only ten months before was calling "the boneless wonder," who only 17 months ago had won a triumphal election on a platform of "working for peace." Elegant, unruffled, a good party man, priding himself on the quiet adjustment and the deft compromise, Eden had built a reputation as a diplomatic technician par excellence. But last week the diplomatic technician had plunged recklessly for force, the popular Prime Minister was under a shattering hail of critical fire unequaled in violence since the time of Neville Chamberlain...
...POLICY will permit test reactors to be built by private industry for first time. AEC wants U.S. business, not Government, to build and operate reactors needed by industry to test parts of other reactors. AEC now operates nation's only two test reactors, but will not lease them to industry if private reactors are available. Negotiating with AEC to build test reactors are AMF Atomics Ltd. and Battelle Memorial Institute...
...automation, says a Bell Telephone Laboratories executive, miniaturization makes possible the tiny servo-mechanisms, i.e., electronic brains, which, built into machines, direct all their operations, automatically correct their errors...
East Germany's breakneck industrialization has brought other bureaucratic bumblings. This is notably true in the infant shipbuilding industry, which operated in the red until 1955 because parts often were promised for delivery after the planned completion of the ship, and supplying industries were built up far from ports. East Germany has launched one 10,000-ton freighter at Warnemünde, now is producing other freighters at Wismar and Rostock, plus 500-ton fishing luggers and luxury yachts (for Communist brass and export) in shipyards at Stralsund and Wolgast on the blue Baltic. But East Germany...