Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never married a man I didn't like." Then she told how chummy she still is with her three ex-mates. She is working on a movie (Death of a Scoundrel) with Sanders, and "he phones me all the time." As for the other two: "Connie Hilton built that hotel of his in Istanbul because of my suggestion. So at least Turkey has a monument of my affection for their Senator...
...learned his first smatterings of science from an awkward young teacher named H. G. Wells.Though he had trouble with Greek, he breezed into spartan Westminster School, and in spite of the fact that there was not a single bath in the place ("It was enough that it was built by Christopher Wren"), he enjoyed himself thoroughly. He went on to Cambridge and to the fulfillment of his first literary ambition: the editorship of the undergraduate Granta...
This week Niarchos had his best excuse in years for a party. In the final round of a long-standing dispute with the U.S. Government, he reached a settlement that will enable him to expand some more. Since 1953, the Government had seized 19 of Niarchos' U.S.-built ships, charged in a suit that he had bought them through front corporations specially set up in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 22, 1954), though barred as an alien from buying U.S. war-surplus vessels for American flag operation. Under the final settlement reached last week, Niarchos will...
With the long-term charters in hand, Niarchos was able to borrow money to finance bigger, faster ships. In the U.S. he built the 45,509-ton World Glory, the world's biggest tanker when it was launched in 1954. In Japan and Sweden last year, he placed orders for 15 new ships totaling nearly 500,000 tons, ordered two more in Germany. In Britain last week shipyard workers were outfitting the 47,750-ton Spyros Niarchos, the world's biggest tanker and fourth biggest merchantman ever launched in the British Isles...
ATOM POWER PLANTS will be built by seven public and private power groups, if they can get clearance and financial aid from the AEC. The seven groups (among them: utilities in Alaska, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts) want to build small 5,000-kw. to 40,000-kw. plants, costing upwards of $10 million each, turn out power competitive with conventional power plants...