Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years?" Angry bystanders jostled the lady and murmured, "Go back to Moscow." Eden put on the father-knows-best manner which comes all too easily to well-schooled, club-and-garden-party-trained Tories. "You ought to be ashamed to mention the matter, dear lady," ssaid Eden. "We have built more schools in three and a half years than the Socialists in six." "Not enough," snapped the old lady...
Bethlehem invested some $20 million stripping off the overburden, constructing ore-loading docks at Picton, 64 miles to the south, and building a mill at the mine site to convert the low-grade (37.5%) ore to pellets testing 65% iron. With ready access to rail transport (through a specially built C.N.R. spur) and a 211-mile water haul through Lake Ontario, the mine emerged as an economical source of ore for Bethlehem's Lackawanna plant, near Buffalo...
...attempt to "short-cut a little bit" (as President Eisenhower put it), the tests were run only by the manufacturers, with the U.S. making an occasional spot check but generally relying on manufacturers' reports. Moreover, last year's vaccine was produced in small lots, like hand-built racing cars, as contrasted with this year's assembly-line production...
...great thing about Walter Alston is that he endures. The Bronx cheers of second-guessing fans bounce off his hide, and needling from his limber-lipped predecessor Charlie Dressen does not faze him at all. His patience is paying off: he has built a team of winners out of last year's so-so Brooklyn Dodgers...
...view of the condition of the schools, a revolution may well be in order. In 1952, France found it would need at least 29,000 new classrooms, but only about 5,000 have so far been built. While migrations from the rural areas have left half-empty schools in the south, those of the north are jammed to overflowing. In Limoges, some lycée students sit three to a table; others have to use their knees as desks. In Rouen, classes meet on stairways, and in Le Mans, students must share a building with the local Garde...