Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officialdom had prodded gently but persistently for this change. The new rate meant that the Army could construct or enlarge airfields, erect new quarters at half the former cost, thus forestall any future criticism of exorbitant expenditures in China. Officially, the Army and other U.S. agencies had been unable to buy Chinese dollars on inflated China's rampant black market (TIME, Dec. 6). Individually, Army personnel can continue to draw pay in U.S. dollars,turn a tidy profit in the black market; where the rate is still more than double the new official exchange...
Enlistments closed last October. Today 115,000 Seabees are overseas, 79,000 are ready to go, the rest are in training. All have had twelve weeks' training in the U.S., have learned how to fight as well as construct...
...soldier to divorce himself from the ideals for which he is fighting and become simply a destructive machine may be a paragon of military discipline, but it is not the attitude which will help construct a world in which such conflicts as the present one may be avoided...
Planned first in 1935 the building is the gift of Lucius N. Littauer '78, who donated over $2,250,000 to construct a building to house all the social sciences. Littauer to house all the social sciences. Littauer, whose fortune is inherited from Gloversville, helped lay the cornerstone in 1938 and was present at the completion of the building...
...takes approximately two years to construct a present-day skyscraper, but it took over 600 years of patient toil and sacrifice to construct the Cathedral in Cologne...