Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly-completed plans, reproduced in part above and on page one of today's CRIMSON, reflect the announced intention of Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, to construct a University library building "designed expressly to meet the requirements of undergraduate students...
...known as Praia Pernambuco, a few minutes by ferry from Santos, will have an airfield, a country club, a polo field, a beach club, a fishing club, hotels, shops, and some 500 houses, all furnished with the latest gadgets. Sao Paulo industrial interests, which are putting up millions to construct this sportsman's dream, expect it to be one of the top resort centers in the hemisphere...
...group of banks to spend on the venture. (Jersey Standard and Socony will guarantee $102,000,000 of the loans, all three companies will share the rest.) Aramco will build a 1,000-mile pipeline from the blistering oil-rich city of Dammam to the Mediterranean: it will construct a deep-water port at Dammam, build a short railroad, install additional refinery equipment and connecting pipelines. All this, it expects, will step up production in Arabia from the current 200,000 barrels a day to 500,000, replenishing the depleted treasury of Ibn Saud by 23? for every barrel...
...trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo: "We always elect poor folks in Mississippi...
...most pressing shortage and biggest black market-housing? It would probably be impossible to maintain the $10,000 sales price ceiling on new houses-the nub of Wilson Wyatt's program for veterans' housing. Instead, the Housing Authority's emphasis might be put on incentives to construct low-rental units...