Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrasing mark-time generalities on his program for expanding the scope of NATO (see FOREIGN NEWS). Questioned on foreign aid at the presidential press conference later in the week, Ike also seemed anxious to keep to broad terms. But he insisted on one point: "The present program has been built up on what we believe to be a minimum basis," and should not be cut. He hoped to see a commission formed that would start from this basis, report by about Jan. 20 its feeling on the big question: "In the years to come, where is U.S. aid going...
...nearly so well known in Oregon as McKay, Phil Hitchcock nevertheless has a wide acquaintanceship built up through his work for the college and the Presbyterian Church, his fraternal (Kiwanis, Masons) activities and two terms in the state senate. Now he is moving across the state in a small plane lent him by his brother Maurice, a White Swan, Wash. sawmill owner, making as many as 14 appearances...
...eight years since, the fieldstone stable has sprouted a shining wing and become a library; the dissecting room of The Castle has become a dining hall. Thirty-one major buildings have risen, roads have been built, shrubs planted. Respected academic names and promising younger ones have brought ability and prestige to the result: Brandeis, the first Jewish-founded nonsectarian university in the country...
...Castle was entirely remodeled, and was followed in rapid order by Ford and Sydeman, classroom buildings; Ullman amphitheatre, with its indoor auditorium built on the stage designed for outdoor use; neat blocks of dormitories; A Student Union; the Shapiro athletic center; the already famed Three Chapels. Now under construction are the Slosberg Music and Art Center, and a $2,500,000 science building, made possible by a grant from the Hayden Foundation...
...aircraft industry, Frederick Brant Rentschler was "Mr. Horsepower." His entire life was devoted to one consuming passion: making bigger, better, more powerful airplane engines to help give the U.S. an Air Force and commercial fleet second to none. In the pursuit Fred Rentschler built United Aircraft Corp. into one of the world's biggest producers of engines (Pratt & Whitney) as well as propellers (Hamilton Standard) and helicopters (Sikorsky). Cool and shrewd, with a mind that ticked with the same precision as his beloved engines, he was never afraid to be called wrong if he thought he was right...