Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peters' lawyer, Thurman Arnold, built his arguments on the Fifth Amendment. He said that since Dr. Peters could not confront his informers, he had been denied the right to "due process of law" guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment. The Government answered that it has a need and a right to protect its informants; if it did not do so, the whole security system would break down. It also contended that its firing procedures are administrative acts, not judicial proceedings with legal penalties, and therefore not subject to the due process clause...
...time to see Hitler's Reichstag fire. In eleven months they bicycled through ten countries, sleeping at farms and youth hostels, visiting mines and factories-"studying life," said Walter. They got visas to Soviet Russia and worked for 16 months with other Americans and foreigners at the American-built automobile plant at Gorky, on the Volga River. On his first day in the U.S.S.R., Walter's pocket was picked...
...share (42? of every $1) was assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force. Part of the appropriation will be spent to build and man more Canada-U.S. radar stations in the Far North. One radar network, the Pinetree Chain, is already in operation, and two more are being built this year. The balance of the air force's budget will be used to make the R.C.A.F. the nation's biggest service, with 41 squadrons (2,845 planes) and a regular strength of 51,000 v. 49,000 in the army, 20,000 in the navy...
...Tory victory was largely a personal triumph for Premier Leslie Frost, 59. A genial small-town lawyer from Lindsay, Ont. (pop. 9,603). Frost took over the premiership in 1949 and steadily built up the Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN will be built by General Motors this summer. Called Train Y, it will carry 400 passengers at better than 100 m.p.h. in low-slung, luxuriously appointed cars, each with a pantry and rest room at one end, a vestibule with steps for both high and low platforms at the other. Cost, excluding engine...