Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Prime Minister arrived at the field training headquarters of the 3rd British Infantry Division. Eden, who won the Military Cross for gallantry in World War I, clambered in and out of armored vehicles, crawled into underground field defenses built to withstand the blast and radiation of atomic bombs dropped 500 yards away. "Pretty ancient aren't they, sir?" said a youthful sergeant when the Prime Minister inspected his living quarters. "They're awful," said Eden. "Accommodations must be improved...
...loud cry for help from Ecuador sent the Organization of American States into an evening emergency session in Washington last week. As Ecuador's Washington Ambassador Jose Chiriboga told it, it sounded alarmingly like war: Peruvian military forces, "feverishly" built up within "recent hours," were massed 20,000-30,000 strong near the Ecuadorian border, creating "an imminent danger to [Ecuador's] territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence...
Argentina has the biggest jet force in Latin America: 120 obsolescent Meteors, plus half a dozen Argentine-built Pulqui II fighters (virtually handmade jobs, produced by German experts hired in 1948 by Juan...
...Oscar. At Edwards, Stapp found himself in command of 2,000 ft. of rail track, the Gee-Whizz (a rocket sled built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc.), a bare barracks that was supposed to serve as a lab, and seven hard-working Northrop employees. His mission: to determine human tolerance to deceleration so that adequate aircraft safety harnesses could be developed...
QUIT-BUSINESS CAMPAIGN of the Eisenhower Administration is moving ahead. As its next step toward taking the Federal Government out of competition with private enterprise, the Administration is putting up for sale its $13.2 million Texas City, Texas tin smelter, built during World War II and still the biggest in the Western Hemisphere...