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Word: buildings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of this, the newspapers convey word that the 20,000 employes of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in California, from their own pockets, raised the money to build a bomber for the British Government. Why can not the common people of this country be ... given a chance in their own way and with their own means and savings to contribute their share to the defense of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...still owns a $500,000 manufacturing plant to supply what will probably become a nationalized Rumanian Telephone Co. What I. T. & T. plans to do with the money President Behn will not say. Best guess is that I. T. & T. will use it to bolster its cash position, build up its properties in friendlier South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sosthenes & Mititza | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...find it hard to make up such groups and try this system. From the time a student gets his first inkling of his subject, to the moment when he puts pen to paper for the first draft, this wider contact with like-minded men can do a lot to build a stronger foundation for the thesis, the work that represents the culmination of the tutorial system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORK IN PROGRESS | 1/15/1941 | See Source »

...ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Ugly Ducklings | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...Admiral, and his boss's boss, the Marshal: wait and trust. "Take courage," the Marshal had said, "and close your ranks about me." Nevertheless, it was hard for the chauffeur and his friends not to put bricks of fact together with the uncertain mortar of rumor, and so build a comforting structure for the future. Last week they heard plenty of talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Admiral's Trips | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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