Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made a highly significant announcement: the U. S. steel industry, now operating at the highest rate in its history (78,000,000 tons a year), must either build new capacity or begin rationing its customers. "I am convinced," said Deputy Batt, "that the steel industry must enlarge its capacity, and I see indications that the industry realizes...
...year began early, the early-season rush is still on. Also, many buyers have been frightened into premature turn-ins by the thought that the 1941 models may be the last for some time. Yet the automakers, just as scared of rationing as their customers, have been anxious to build year-end inventories up to the level of 600,000 new cars...
...many another U. S. community. Unlike most other materials of war, explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules Powder Co.) on land leased from farmers. The homes would...
These are the machine bosses of Mexico, tough, realistic, ruthless politicians with no particular political bias, but with a great yen to build things, run things efficiently and just incidentally do a spot of getting. Also around Avila Camacho have gathered a group of brash young conservatives typified by Miguel Alemán, 36, Governor of Vera Cruz...
...with the help of several bottles of port. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was promptly answered by at least 14 pro-slavery novels, including Aunt Phillis's Cabin. Deep in their weeping willows and haunted groves, early U. S. novelists did not build better mousetraps, but at least provided them with a remarkable variety of cheese...