Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HYRC had called the proposed Forum the product of "dewy-eyed optimism" with "no practical reason" for its formation. A political club built around a national party, the Republican group argued, should operate "in a completely independent and distinct frame of reference...
...country to better their own teaching and facilities--just as the Corporation's defiance of Senator McCarthy bolstered academic freedom on a nation-wide basis. If Harvard announced, for example, that it would not increase its enrollment at all until it had raised faculty salaries by twenty percent and built at least one new House, other institutions would likewise tend to raise their salaries (if only for competitive reasons) and in general to improve their standards. The Administration should take some such stand, assuring both Harvard people and the country as a whole that the College, though hoping and preparing...
...Washington hearing room last week a House Government Operations subcommittee started to investigate the fiasco of the Navy's F3H1 Demon jet fighters, built by McDonnell Aircraft and powered by Westinghouse engines. Five of the carrier planes crashed and four more are flying with other engines; 21, never to fly, may be used only for Navy ground training. Estimated loss: $200 million...
...each 300 feet long, that are rammed 150 feet into the ocean floor. It cost $1,500,000, weighs 1,600 tons (as much as a destroyer), has air-conditioned barracks, a TV set, a food-packed galley, a helicopter landing spot, and is the biggest offshore rig ever built. Said McCollum: "The cost was awful. But now that we've hit one well off it, the second and third and fourth and fifth will start making it profitable. The big fields offshore will be highly profitable. If we'd missed on it, it would have been catastrophic...
...option (which today shows a paper profit of upwards of $4,000,000), a salary of $125,000 and a free hand. Within eight years Conoco more than doubled its refinery capacity and its gross income ($500 million in 1954). It boosted the number of wells completed by 75%, built the first major offshore pipeline, and bought the largest interest in the giant Great Lakes pipeline. It leased nearly five times as much acreage as it had before, raised capital expenditures (primarily for wells and leases) by 122%, nearly doubled the number of gas stations throughout its area, and laid...