Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon: We do not claim to astonish the Russian people. We hope to show our diversity and our right to choose. We do not want to have decisions made at the top by one government official that all houses should be built the same...
...female elephant named Jumbo, borrowed from the Turin zoo. In preparation for the trip, Jumbo was taken on long daily walks in hope that roadwork would condition her for the climb. Special leather-soled boots 30 in. high and weighing nearly 30 lbs. apiece were built to protect her feet. To guard against the cold and against bumps and scrapes in narrow passages, she was fitted with knee pads and a padded canvas overcoat. A three-ton food supply was rounded...
...government built tent camps at army bases all over town, filled Havana University with cots, bedded down 122 lucky guajiros in the presidential palace's Hall of Mirrors. Merely by flashing their identification cards, issued before they left home, the guajiros got free food, shirts, laundry, bus rides and movie tickets. "Our Cuban revolution is very good," grinned Calalu Nistal, 54, as he checked into the luxurious Comodoro Hotel. "I never thought I would be doing this," said another guajiro as he accepted a free Cuba Libre at the Havana Riviera...
...Kaufman and Hart comedy will be performed on a stage now being erected in the Lower Common Room of the Harvard Union. The modular stage owned by Dunster House, which was built this year with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, will be the basis of the temporary structure, while elements of the Adams House apron stage. also financed in part by the Ford Foundation, will be used to complete it. The new stage is designed for minimal interference with normal activity in the common room, piano room, and TV room...
...that North German Lloyd was synonymous with service, Bertram and Kulenkampff set up a hotel and restaurant in Bremen to hold together stewards and cooks, placed seamen on other ships until jobs were ready for them. With $22 million in government loans and fast tax write-offs, they quickly built up a fleet of new freighters, now have 40 in service...