Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five plants around the U.S. in World War II, Bell built 12,900 fighters (many of which were lend-leased to the Russians), and by 1944 was in production with another innovation, the Bell P-59 Airacomet, first U.S. jet fighter. But typically, Bell was losing interest in fighters. Said he: "They don't offer much challenge really...
...mouse's help. With American, Case will get a complete new line of road-building machinery to add to its regular farm-implement line. It will also get American's 39-year-old fireball president, Marc B. Rojtman, who in only eight years has built American up from nothing to a multimillion-dollar business...
...opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings of heavily laden barges, businessmen can ship goods north and south at rates anywhere from 20% to 50% cheaper than by rail or truck. The saving, says the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which built the waterway, amounts to a whopping $83 million annually, more than the entire $65 million construction cost since the canal was first started...
...warfare of World War II, when the U.S. used it to transport 90 million tons of vital supplies, safe from preying U-boats in the Gulf. But the Waterway has really proved its value in peacetime. At least 500 companies (among them: Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, Dow Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete...
...last Thursday's article on the history of maids at the College, the following sentence, based on a Nov. 26, 1952, CRIMSON report of a contest for each House's favorite maid, appeared: "Mrs. Walsh from Lowell was chosen because, among other things, she built bookshelves and 'never took the boys' liquor without asking first...