Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...romance of transportation," Greene says, "that's made us all enthusiastic about railroads. Rapid and cheap transportation built this country, and the rail fans are people who understand the romantic implications of America's growth...
...full pay load; prospects for another trip seem very good despite early advertising that this was positively the B & M's last steam trip. All steam power was originally scheduled for retirement soon, but the railroad has begun stalling, and 3713, the last of 25 P-4's built in 1935 for heavy express service, may pull a few more trains, after all. Rail fans speculate that the railroad, which has excused its decision on account of "the heavy winter," may wait for a while because of its recent difficulty with the Budd RDC's, single-unit, diesel cars...
...such proportions that some people fear it may eventually "explode" and destroy itself, in the last month a new revival for the long-discussed Harvard Theatre has started. The Visual Arts Committee, headed by multi-millionaire John Nicholas Brown '22, recommended in its report that the Theatre be built as part of a large-scale Visual Arts Center. The question now is not "will there be a Theatre?" but "when" and "what will it be like?" There is a general air of optimism surrounding the eventual erection of the Theatre that was unknown...
...room in the museum will be redesigned to display the skeleton. The bones will be fastened to a steel framework along one side, and a plaster-of-paris wall will be built to cover the frame and simulate the rock wall in which the reptile was found...
...built its own brand-new competitive V-8 engine plant, begun making its own bodies in a plant leased from Chrysler, talked the militant U.A.W. into reducing labor costs at Studebaker's South Bend factory to make them competitive with the rest of the industry, pioneered such engineering items on the Packard line as torsion-bar suspension and electrified push-button automatic shifts...