Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he joined the Army and specialized in industrial and labor-manpower cases; in 1944 was made Chief of Civilian Personnel of Army Ordnance, was discharged as a colonel a year later. He returned to his law firm only upon his insistence that he be made a partner, subsequently built a widespread reputation as an expert on labor...
...campaign. "I never started," he says, "and I never stop. Since his 1954 election to complete the unexpired term of his idol, Robert A. Taft, Bender has worked hard to live down his reputation as the bell ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican National Convention. He has built up a record as a solid pro-Eisenhower Senator, and few Republicans have a better right to call upon Ike for help. Most observers agree that although he has cut deeply into a big Lausche lead Bender is still behind. But George Bender himself is booming with confidence. Says he: "Everybody...
...power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built to connect the Somoza properties, but it remains a poor (yearly per capita income: $245), dusty, undeveloped country...
Died. William Edward Boeing, 74, rich man's son who took up flying for fun, decided after his seaplane cracked up that he could make a better one, made it (1916), prospered on war contracts, later built fighters and mail planes, quit the Boeing Airplane Co. in 1934, returned as an unofficial adviser during World War II, when the firm built the legendary Flying Fortresses (B-178) and Superforts (B-293), later saw Boeing develop the B-52 jet bomber; of a heart attack aboard his yacht; in Puget Sound...
Charles L. Taylor, Master of Kirkland, was optimistic about prospects for new construction ideas, saying that a House now "could have many modern advantages that were not conceived" when the Houses were built. He mentioned meeting rooms, tutorial facilities, and grilles...