Word: constructer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Kaiser is not the only big shipbuilder who expects to turn aircraftmaker. Andrew Jackson Higgins announced that, although the Maritime Commission had just closed his huge New Orleans shipyard for lack of steel, the yard would be reopened to construct flying boats. Higgins had just talked with Kaiser, will soon meet him in Washington for a three-way confab with President Roosevelt. When & if Kaiser and Higgins (and maybe others) turn out flying boats as fast as they say they can, the United Nations might begin...
...Army was planning to try out the system of letting the military ministers find themselves places to eat in the Square. However, most of the restaurants are filled about the noon hour with the officers studying at Cruft, and many believe that the Army may be forced to construct a mess hall for the chaplains...
Eating facilities could not be provided for the officers, however, and the University has found it necessary to urge that the Army construct a suitable mess hall and kitchen for the new group. To date permission for this project has not been received from Washington and the movement of the school waits such an order...
...bore for themselves airtight galleries which shut out light, diseases, most enemies. These galleries also keep their colonies humid and draftless, so that the soft-bodied insects do not dry up. This sheltered existence makes termites hard to fight. When soil-nesting termites travel to find wood, they construct long covered runways, which may reach even to the second floor of a house...
Most of these strips, much cheaper to construct than airfields, will be in coastal areas within five to 50 miles of the Army's regular fields so that planes can be widely dispersed. If enough strips are finished in time, they will help prevent defending planes from being destroyed on the ground -and so far in World War II (e.g., the Philippines, Pearl Harbor) more planes have been wrecked on the ground than shot...