Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnamese army has built eleven new forts in which local volunteers now stand guard against terrorist attack. Forty-five new bridges span tributaries along the canal bank. Abuilding in many hamlets are new marketplaces, schools, dispensaries and maternity clinics. A thin trickle of shipping has started, and shipwrights in a number of villages have begun the construction of new 50-and 100-ton barges, confident that the canal will soon be open for full-scale business...
...hands of their enemies. The fifth largest city in China, Wuhan (pop. 2,800,000) is really three cities-Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang-and is the Chicago of China-the transportation hub of the vast country. Its great double-decked vehicular and railroad bridge is the only span across the 3,100-mile length of the Yangtze between Nanking near the coast and Chungking in the western mountains. It is also one of Communist China's key industrial centers, pouring a quarter of the country's steel and producing such important products as machine tools and paper, cement...
...figure quoted of $10 million dollars in so-called Section 112 credits is without basis in fact. No one has calculated the credits under existing conditions, let alone estimate them for possible future plans. These credits have a life-span of five years, and therefore vary from moment to moment...
...would suggest that this difficulty also applies to the operation of the press. Someone was just talking here about the problem of the short span of the information operation as the press operates to meet the news of the day. You get the story when it is first reported. You get the answer back as to what's happening while it's important. The public scene is not set up to give equal prominence to the long-term underlying, less spectacular factors that really need to be kept to the fore...
...Kodak agreed to recognize FIGHT as a representative organization of Rochester's poor and will send recruiting teams into the ghet to the interview applicants whom FIGHT will provide. FIGHT, in turn, has dropped its demand for hiring and training of a specific number of people over a specific span of time...