Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karamanlis had filled five Cabinet posts since 1935, built a popular following in his most recent, Minister of Public Works, but was not considered an influence within the dominant Rally party. The new Premier drew on the Rally party for his new Cabinet and said he would try to form a "permanent administration." But opposition groups immediately threatened to resign from Parliament unless he called for early elections. Much neutralist feeling was sweeping through Greece, and some doubted that the Greek Rally could long outlive its creator...
...confession (of incompetence) which announced Georgy Malenkov's fall from Premier last February, Molotov's error was the more heinous for being ideological. At that same time Molotov had said: "Side by side with the Soviet Union, where the foundation of a Socialist society has already been built, there are people's democratic countries which have so far taken only the first, though very important, step towards Socialism." Molotov's error lay in the use of one word: foundation. Said he in his confession: "This mistaken for mulation leads to the incorrect conclusion that allegedly...
...Kubitschek does take office as President, he will bring to his tasks a sound record as an energetic governor who built roads and public works, got loans, and drew business capital to his state. When campaigning, he sings and sambas with gusto, orates with spellbinding fervor; but he gets a lot of work done...
...M.P.H. Most of the credit for this unparalleled record goes to the late Ferdinand Porsche, who designed his first car, a battery-driven model that made 20 m.p.h., in 1899. Porsche built one of the world's first streamlined racers in 1910, designed a revolutionary engine for a 26-ton, self-propelled gun in World War I. During the '20s and '30s, his extravagant methods of car-building and his liking for experiments nearly broke a series of employers, but his cars dominated European racing...
...Adolf Hitler proclaimed Porsche a Nazi hero, commissioned him to design the Third Reich's famous "people's car" (Volkswagen). Porsche produced a design, but the Nazis, who built only 200, abandoned the project (after milking some 300,000 Germans for advance payments) and assigned Porsche to design weapons, notably the famed Tiger tank. In 1945, he was arrested by French troops and after a trial, jailed for two years as a war criminal...