Word: built
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...line across Canada to Toronto and Montreal before shipping any gas to the U.S. Because much of the route would be through thinly populated areas where there are no cash customers for gas, potential investors objected that Trans-Canada would have no income while the line was being built and, even after it was completed, would still have to develop its eastern market...
...satisfy proud Canadians and wary bankers, T.G.T. and Trans-Canada agreed that when the transcontinental line is built Tennessee Gas will stop delivering Texas gas to eastern Canada through its line at Niagara. At that time (probably 1957) T.G.T. will reverse the flow and take into the U.S. any surplus gas in eastern Canada. To prepare its eastern market, Trans-Canada this year plans to build a 350-mile line from Toronto to Montreal...
...choosing the best from the international jewel market, young Tiffany soon built up a worldwide reputation. The great, the gaudy and the merely rich flocked to Tiffany's. In 1850, when Jenny Lind first came to the U.S., one of her first stops was at Tiffany's, where she ordered a silver tankard for the captain of the ship that had brought her from Sweden. P. T. Barnum was so impressed that he commissioned Tiffany's to design a silver chariot as a wedding present for his two famous midgets, General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren...
Died. Fiske Kimball, 66, longtime (1925-55) director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, restorer of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Robert E. Lee's Stratford (Va.) home; of a stroke; in Munich, Germany. Kimball became director when the museum was only partially built, developed it into one of America's best, acquired the Gallatin Collection (e.g., Picasso's Three Musicians), the $2,000,000 Arensberg Collection (e.g., Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
...excessive neatness of the full circle from cut forehead to cut forehead is characteristic of The Years of the City. Right down to the pat A, B, C, D of the main characters' names, Author Stewart built his massive book with a professorial care that helps make up for his defects as a novelist. His descriptions are sometimes gravelly with detail, and his style is sometimes thorny, but his tale of a city that never was can teach readers a lot about the cities that really were-and the cities that are. "When we read the story...