Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulsating with the deeper excitement of proved riches and the pell-mell drive to get them out of the ground. Geologists have declared that there may be uranium ore reserves of at least 150 million tons in the 900 square miles. Already the shafts are being sunk and mills built for four huge mines. One of them alone, Algom, will be capable of producing more uranium than all of the 600-plus uranium mines...
Hirshhorn also has drawn tentative plans for a second new model town along the shore of Lake Huron's Bootlegger's Bay. Hirshhorn stipulated, however, that his town will be built only if Blind River fails to provide essential services (schools, water and sewage systems...
...making a fast boomtown buck. The town council turned down a plan for a general tax reassessment to provide revenue for urgently needed public improvements; all the improving underway is motivated by the familiar old law of supply and demand. Two of the town's hotels have built or are planning to build more bedrooms. Menard's department store, whose basement is given over to the only undertaking establishment in town, has prospered enough to plan a separate $30,000 funeral parlor...
...Angeles' NORTON SIMON, 48, who built Hunt Foods into the country's fourth biggest canner of fruit and vegetables (1954 sales: $66 million), has used his profits to move into other fields. In 1946 Simon went into Ohio Match, whose stock was selling at some $2,500,000 below net worth. He had so many good ideas that the directors offered him a voice in company policy without a fight, saw their profits soar. Later, to get wood supplies for Ohio Match, he invested some of its cash in the Northern Pacific Railroad, which had big timber tracts...
...great step forward in the industrialization of Greece. There, operation of a new electric-power system, with three hydroelectric power plants, one lignite plant, and 4,300 miles of transmission lines, was turned over to the Greek government by Manhattan's Ebasco Services, which had designed and built the system. Said Ebasco's Harvey Breckenridge, onetime vice president of Pittsburgh's West Penn Power Co.. who supervised construction: "It's the first time in history that a nation has had a power system in such a short time...