Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom That Travelers Built (March 14), a gallery of palatial new motels...
...Built-in Booby Traps. The refugee program was disjointed originally by a Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk...
Most of the program's delays were built in by Congress, which booby-trapped the bill with unworkable provisions. Visas were arbitrarily allotted to various areas on the basis of pressure in Congress. Some of the quotas could be filled several times over; others cannot...
...Moscow. As a result of Bulganin's efforts, the Moscow Electrical Station fulfilled its target in the first Five-Year Plan in less than three years. Bulganin's reward was an assignment to succeed Kaganovich as chairman of the Moscow Soviet-in effect, Mayor of Moscow. Bulganin built boulevards and six bridges across the Moskva River. From Britain and France he imported such "improvements" as a fleet of trolley buses and a set of spanking white gloves for the capital's traffic cops. Bulganin worked with Kaganovich and Khrushchev, then a district party boss, on the building...
...first atomic energy reactor specifically designed for medical treatment and research is to be built for the University of California at Los Angeles. Its heart will be a foot-thick sphere of stainless steel containing uranyl sulfate enriched with uranium 235. Operating normally at 5 kw., the reactor will "burn" one ounce of fuel in 20 years, will provide gamma rays and neutrons for treating cancer patients as well as radiation for other research...