Word: outbuilding
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...Finance, Nicolas Fouquet, who, at his chateau of Vaux-le Vicomte was unwise enough to out-status the King with "the insolent and audacious luxury" of a house-warming for 6,000 people. With "mingled admiration and fury," the King banished Fouquet to a fortress and decided to outbuild everyone in the known world. Thus was the Bourbon system brought to its intricate perfection...
...from both quarters. The Russians built a military and jet airport near Kabul, the capital. The U.S. is just finishing a huge, 10,500-ft. jetport near Kandahar, has started work on other civil airports at Herat, Kunduz and Jalalabad. Russian and U.S. highway gangs compete, in trying to outbuild one another...
...only a small relative percentage of our national income, we should be able to outbuild and outlast the Soviet Union," Dean Mason remarked, "even though the Russians have the head start...
...Reasons. The chief reason the U.S. could thus strut its new-won power was that it could outbuild Japan, in ships, planes and weapons. In 28 months, while its air and naval power cut big hunks out of Japanese sea might, the U.S. Navy had grown to be the greatest sea-air force in the world...
...millions and billions by 1943" keynote of America's war is based in turn on tales of our immense store of natural and industrial resources. Given time enough, the story goes, we can outbuild and outshoot any nation on earth. But reassuring though it sounds, it has a catch, in the form of several ignored but potent factors. First, we ignored the possibilities of a Japanese East Indies or a German Empire. Second, we ignored that Axis technological methods have left us behind in many fields. The third, and most correctible factor is that, through mere inertia in American industry...