Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tennessee Valley Authority, visited the subcontinent and concluded that while the two nations quarreled over how much water each got, fully 80% of the Indus flow swept unused to the sea. The question was "pure dynamite," Lilienthal noted, and he urged that an extended canal system be "designed, built and operated as a unit," jointly financed by India, Pakistan and the World Bank...
...issue is a $400 million question-more or less the cost of replacing the outmoded Sabre jets flown by eight Royal Canadian Air Force overseas squadrons with 200 to 300 supersonic fighters. In their time, the Canadian-built Sabres, along with four squadrons of still useful Avro CF-100s, helped Canada's air division gain recognition as NATO's finest. But interceptors are fast becoming obsolete and the Canadian division a token force...
...while remaining strictly Kiesler. Their collaboration resulted first in Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken for the partners' full-scale project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a gigantic shrine, to be entered from underground, and built around an 80-foot column of c water, to house the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...Comfort is largely a matter of habit, he argues; his house might seem uncomfortable at first, yet not remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built into one of the supporting pillars beneath. Radiant heating will keep the house snug. Storage space exists in abundance between the interior and exterior shells of the building...
Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson, 28, landed in Los Angeles in 1918 with $10 and a tambourine. Six years later she had built these assets into the $1,500,000 Angelus Temple and a $25,000 radio station, all paid for by cash donations from the fanatic flock that supported her Foursquare Gospel...