Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates, but his efficiency made him many a potent New Deal friend...
...ports on the Bay of Bengal-as it did. Stilwell could fight his way out. The R.A.F. could batter the German in Europe, turn back the Jap in the Coral Sea. But if the foe struck deep enough into China from the south, if he could pile up enough reverses to erase Chiang, either in battle or by treachery, then ruin would be close. The Jap would have nine-tenths of his New Order in Greater East Asia. It might then take years to knock...
...squad saw the Yankee-Red Sox clash Sunday, and then yesterday went over to Baker's Field and took revenge by knocking Columbia from the top of the League pile. Three major position changes were devised by Coach Floyd Stahl with Waldstein starting in left field, Callanan subbing for Delahoyde behind the plate, and Thayer Drake starting his first Varsity game at short for Jay Gleason...
Wealthy Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney decided to tear down the Harry Payne Whitney house-one of the last great mansions left on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue. Her husband willed it to her at his death in 1930 but she rarely lived there. A limestone and marble pile with ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck...
...nation's fast swimmers, Yale is a favorite for first in every event, with the possible exceptions of the 50 and 100 yard free styles and the back-stroke. Even if the Elis fail to take their quota of first places, however, their squad has the depth to pile up enough seconds and thirds in order to take the team title...