Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glut of Side Dishes. For all his first mistakes, Eugene Meyer, known affectionately to his staff as "Butch," worked wonders. He built a national bureau to cover the Government, patterned after the Washington bureaus of the big Manhattan dailies. He developed an editorial page that, under Felix Morley, began at once to show insight and vigor, gain national prestige. By 1946, circulation had more than trebeled...
...Ford Foundation's Advanced Study Center, the firm, led by Senior Partner William Wilson Wurster, 60, dean of the University of California's School of Architecture, put together a miniature campus in six months from commission to moving day. Designed as a retreat for scholars, it is built around restful individual studies for the 38 residents, done in unpainted redwood, with secluded patios and large windows looking out over the lonely hills...
...back its strike-lost appliance market, but jump ahead 35% over last year's sales. Westinghouse will kick off a $32 million ad campaign, biggest in its history, go to the dealers with a revamped 1956 line: portable TV sets, a 22-inch color receiver, an array of "built-in" refrigerators, freezers and automatic washers...
...towns that are still going up in the U.S., community planning is considered a vital factor in attracting a stable, skilled work force. The modern company town is usually a model community with broad, tree-lined streets, spacious shopping centers (which invariably are leased to local merchants) and well-built housing designed to encourage home ownership...
...Silver Bay and Babbitt, two five-year-old taconite mining communities built by Reserve Mining Co. in remote northeastern Minnesota, company-built homes are sold to employees on longterm, no-cash-down mortgages held by the company. Says Reserve President W. M. Kelley: "Good communities are essential to our operation. If we are to compete successfully, we must continue to attract skilled, high-type men who want to own their own homes and run their own communities...