Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secondly, since Great Britain is having ships sunk at a rate of twice her capacity to construct ocean-going crafts, sooner or later there will not be enough ships available. To prevent any such eventuality, the League proposes the use of American merchantmen and naval warships for convoy duty...
Last September, this military Utopia ended with a bang. Fort Bragg was to be turned into a training centre for 67,000 men: the job had to be completed in six and a half months. Army quartermasters, civilian contractors, 30,000 Tarheel work men moved in to construct 2,562 new buildings, 93 miles of paved roads, 75 miles of water mains, 60 miles of sewer lines, an 8,000,000-gallon (per day) water system, 60 miles of electric power lines, other huge essentials. The cantonment would be North Carolina's third largest city. By last week...
...Conferred with Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner of Public Roads, on plans to construct a series of national superhighways as part of a post-defense program of vast, self-liquidating projects which would cushion industry against a postwar collapse. The President said he would ask Congress at this session for authorizations of projects...
...What we want is a short, clear creed, acceptable to the decent common man everywhere, that will act like a trumpet call. Then we must proclaim it everywhere. ... If we fought with ideas as well as weapons, we should not only help to construct a world worth living in, but also shorten...
...autumn of 1917, in Smolny Institute in Petrograd, Nikolai Lenin quietly said: We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist State...