Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be taxable property assessed at at least $20,000, but in some of the towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property that had never been taxed. But even if the assessors were working at maximum efficiency, the school districts would still be in trouble. About 27% of them have reached the legal tax-rate...
Farther north, on the Mojave Desert, Rancher Stoddard Jess has built one of the desert's tidiest agricultural arrangements. His chief crop is turkeys, 55,000 birds or more each year, and better than 100,000 poults. In a complex of freshwater ponds, he raises a million rainbow trout from fingerlings. The trout fatten on entrails from the dressed turkeys and on worms grown as a crop on the ranch. Water from the ponds irrigates fields of corn, and the turkeys are turned loose to fatten on the corn...
...from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home...
...make such "dynamic" sculptures possible on a grand scale, and the addition of so-called music by electronic means would make them pretty hard to ignore. But Schoffer's success in getting his tower sculpture constructed is only the beginning. "My goal," he says solemnly, "is a city built up around this tower and, so to speak, taking its essence from the sculpture...
...SUPERLINER will be built by the French Line to replace its aging Ile de France and Liberté. The $77 million ship will gross 53,000 tons, carry 2,007 passengers. First sailing...