Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public, debts resulted from frenetic spending and dangerously overextended credit. Corporations rolled up the immense debts of $176 billion, while consumers came close to that total. Business borrowed and built and produced, consumers borrowed and bought. Most consumption and production was of new conveniences, gadgets, and luxury items. This is proved by the 1954 business index, which shows durable good production dropping sharply, while non-durable production rises. Prices of these consumer items also rose to record heights, explaining the record consumer expenditures...
...could not study, so I sold newspapers." In small print it goes on to say: "Study is an unattainable dream for children living in capitalist countries. In such large countries as America, England, and France, one must pay for tuition and therefore almost no new schools are ever built. In Africa, in the southern regions of the Sudan, there is only one school student per 2,000 children. In Indonesia, altogether 3,000,000 children do not study...
...present physical plant is hardly sufficient to support those now enrolled, (e.g., 10 per cent of students wishing rooms are forced to commute). Before increasing the size of the undergraduate body, a new dormitory, library, health center, and other administration buildings must be built and an expanded administrative staff provided, he said...
...SUPERSONIC BOMBER will be built by North American Aviation (F86 Sabre, F-100 Super Sabre) for U.S. Navy. North American has $86 million development contract for 1,000 m.p.h., twinjet, A3J carrier-based bomber...
...CITY will be built on last big block of undeveloped land in Los Angeles metropolitan area. For sum in "excess of $10 million," Transamerica Corp. and Christiana Oil Corp. (headed by former U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas) have bought 8,000-acre Diamond Bar Ranch near Pomona, only 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Plan is for community of 100,000, with shopping centers, schools, churches, 30,000 homes in $15,000-to-$40,000 price range...