Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...linking them to the U.N. proper is the job of the Secretariat: some 3,100 international civil servants who work in the U.N.'s "glass house," overlooking Manhattan's East River. A shaft of gleaming white marble boxing 5,400 green-tinted windows, the U.N. capitol was built on land that was paid for by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (price: $8,500,000) and furnished with teak from Burma, Jerusalem stone from Israel, carpets from India and Iran, and dramatically barren decoration by the Scandinavians. The U.N. Plaza has become Manhattan's top tourist attraction...
...CAFE, since then, Johnson has built up a force of 1,100, constructed housing, set up a sawmill, bakery, tile and brick factory, gristmill and nursery, planted 1,260,000 coffee trees. Paraguay, which cooperated with CAFE by easing laws on currency exchange, now promises to become for the first time a coffee producer, and a competitive one. Said President Stroessner, after his tour of the new plantations: "What Paraguay needs is 100 men like Señor Johnson...
...professor at the University of California, he went to Rochester in 1921 as head of a school that was still only a bleak patch of earth. An awesome but beloved figure ("When he comes into a classroom,'' a student once said, "the silence is deafening"), he built up two great hospitals, a school of nursing, clinics for cerebral palsy and psychiatry, turned Rochester into one of the top medical centers in the nation. Meanwhile, he also found time to study the indispensable role of certain foods, principally liver, in the formation of hemoglobin-a discovery to which thousands...
Imports v. Exports. With its new confidence Europe has reached greater financial security. The supply of native capital for investment is rising; e.g., in France, Italy and Germany, capital markets were more active in 1954 than in any other postwar year. Moreover, Europe built up a 1954 trade balance, i.e., exports over imports, of $1.2 billion, only $200 million under 1953's postwar record. For West Europeans, the surplus meant that they could not only boost monetary reserves, but allow more imports of dollar goods. Thus European imports from the U.S. rose $500 million in 1954, even though exports...
...small band of World War II pilots who have made good with their airlines. Both won their wings in the Navy, later served in the Air Transport Command, where they saw a bright future for peacetime cargo flying. Starting off with two surplus C-54s in 1947, they quickly built up a fleet of twelve DC-4s and a business of more than $10 million flying across the Pacific during the Korean War (TIME, July...