Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the noon Angelus pealed from the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste one day last week, an earth-shaking rumble ran through the Quebec town of Nicolet (pop. 5,500). The old cathedral, built in 1757, trembled and its tall white spires tilted. The foundations of the nearby Bishop's palace crumbled and the building sank to its eaves in the mud. A Christian Brothers school toppled into the Nicolet River. A hole 40 ft. deep and 1,000 ft. long suddenly opened in the ground, swallowing an apartment house, three private homes and a service station...
...Loring and Pilot Bengoa were too busy to be nervous. The Bermuda airport had called Lockheed, the plane's manufacturer, in Manhattan and via short-wave radio put a landing-gear specialist in touch with the Constellation. He advised the pilot to try a more powerful auxiliary system built into the gear for just such emergencies; but it only broke a hydraulic line and made a normal landing out of the question. Captain Rein-Loring decided that the plane would have to be landed on its belly...
...Canadian lamprey fighters have had some success with electrically charged fences built across the lampreys' favorite streams. Adult lampreys are killed or driven back by the electricity before they can spawn, but good fish are affected, too, and the fences are expensive to build and operate. Dr. Moffett felt it would be much better to find some chemical that would kill the infant lampreys in their burrows. The poison would have to spare the desirable fish that use the same streams, and no such chemical was known. So Moffett sent out a call for help, asking universities and industrial...
President Funston seems preordained for his evangelist's job. He is in the prime of life (45), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), ruggedly built (200 Ibs.), and he has a boyish smile and an easy friendliness that make him at ease with Kansas dirt farmers, Milwaukee matrons or millionaire Texans. He is not interested in who sells the stock-or in what companies-so long as the stock is sound. Says he: "A very small amount of personal savings goes into direct stock ownership. I'm not interested in how we split the pie. I want a bigger...
Symphony, he paces about his penthouse with lips clamped in the expression of the well-known bust in the music room; but somehow, with his fluttery dimples and impetuous curls, he looks rather more like a pink plastic dolly with built-in colic...