Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist China at any cost, the three are reconciled to future trials. Said Cowart, with a political education born of bitter experience: "I would sooner have Hitler come back than have Communism. Hitler only destroyed the body, but Communism destroys the mind. The society of China is built on fear-fear of each man for the other...
...Russians built highways, silos and oil-storage tanks-works which few Afghans could fail to note. Besides, said one Russian confidently, "the roads, gasoline and grain will be useful to our armies when they march...
Fifty Years to Go. Many of the big new plants promised at last week's Congress are to be built in the mountainous interior, as far away as possible from U.S. bomber bases. Among them, Planner Li expects to develop atomic-energy plants, built with "direct Soviet aid." Red China also plans to keep on spending far more than it can afford on guns, tanks and planes, "because the imperialists are still encircling China, and she must . . . liberate Taiwan." Hidden in Peking's budget for 1955 was a sizable increase in arms spending...
...Dark Days. His son, August Busch Sr., took over the presidency, steadily boosted sales even through World War I, when anti-German feeling ran high in the U.S. He built the chateau on his estate to move his children out to the country, where, as Gussie Jr. says, "a kid just couldn't have had more." Friends remember young Gussie as difficult for other children to get along with, recall that he was hot-tempered and impatient with dogs and horses. Says Gussie himself: "Let's just say I was the original Peck...
...will stay on as president of the firm's wholly owned subsidiary, Union News Co., which runs newsstand and restaurant concessions as well as Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. As a boy, Garfinkle helped support his widowed mother by selling papers to Staten Island ferry passengers, built up a big independent newsstand network along the East Coast. He will try to fatten sales by reorganizing magazine distribution and reaching for new outlets along traffic-heavy superhighways...