Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldtimer's whiskers. Warily he plodded. He knew his Yukon, knew that while the running creeks freeze solid early, little springs that never freeze bubble under the snow all winter; that to crash through an ice-skin meant wet feet that would freeze almost instantly unless he could build a fire...
...able to build a fire in that country is to be able to live. All Alaskans know that. Sourdough Robertson knew it. The bulging sun, which had popped up over the south horizon for a few hours, slid down again. Night came on. In the distance trotted black shadows-wolves. The oldtimer decided to camp beside a little stream. Something went wrong. He couldn't light a fire. Perhaps his old hands numbed too quickly when he jerked them out of the mittens to strike matches; stayed numb no matter how he pounded them together. Perhaps his little sticks...
...stake, in addition to the ultimate excellence of U. S. pursuit planes. The Army has let contracts of $90,500,000 for Allison engines and airplanes to put them in-Curtiss, Lockheed, Bell-and has a stake of $62,448,000 in Packard Motor Co.'s project to build liquid-cooled 1,000-h.p. Rolls-Royces - round total...
Great news came last week to Philadelphia's dusty, rusting Cramp shipyards on the Delaware River, which built wooden clippers, Civil War ironclads, World War I destroyers. The recently reorganized, refinanced Cramp Shipbuilding Co. (TIME, Sept. 23) got a $113,822,000 contract to build six cruisers for the U. S. Navy's second-ocean fleet, an additional $9,500,000 to rehabilitate and expand the abandoned yards...
...Navy needed all the shipyard space it could find for the 17 battleships, 48 cruisers, 166 destroyers on its construction schedule. The measure of the Navy's need was the fact that cruisers take 32 to 33 months to build. Cramp's will be in shape to begin laying keels next August, will need 18 months to complete its reconditioning...