Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard economist felt that "a prosperity built on this kind of progression is at least in part a sham...
With or without a shotgun, Pearl deserves the title. In her 15 years as superintendent, she has built a reputation as the most adroit political battler for education that Washington has ever known. So adroit has she become, in fact, that many a Democrat had hopes that she would run for governor next fall. It would have been a spectacular race, for even the Republican hopeful, Attorney General Don Eastvold, admitted: "She'd be a formidable opponent." This week, however, Pearl announced that she had only one office in mind. She intended to seek re-election to the post...
...upping the maximum Title I (repair and modernization) loan from $2,500 to $3,500 and the maximum repayment period from three to five years. Home improvement alone, guessed one builder, might be a $10 billion industry this year. Housing men also expect more higher-priced houses will be built. Said one builder: "People can afford to buy better houses, and we have had to raise standards and prices after ten years of building cheeseboxes...
...justify building a pipeline to compete with his own tank cars, S.P. President Donald Joseph Russell, 56, has a businessman's answer: "In two or three years, the refineries would have built a pipeline. If Southern Pacific is going to lose business, I want to be sure we are losing it to ourselves...
...Finest example in England of the late Gothic style, celebrated for its fan vaulting. The chapel was built circa 1446 by Henry VI, who founded Eton at the same time...