Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never has been my intention to wage wars, but rather to build up a State with a new social order and the finest possible standard of culture. Every year that this war drags on is keeping me away from this work. Only a few days ago Mr. Churchill reiterated his declaration that he wants...
...build up the Navy to meet any possible combination of hostile naval forces...
...Present enrollment: 200,000. Proposed by Sidney Hillman: to add 160,000 to CCC and 300,000 to NYA, train them to run and repair tractors, build roads and bridges...
...single-party idea gathered momentum two months ago, this unanswerable man was approached. At first he was reluctant to undertake its leadership, but, as when Caesar turned down the crown, reluctance only teased and whetted those who offered it. They became insistent. He had reservations. He refused to build a party which would obey the Army. He refused to consider forming a party which would merely be a combination of the old corrupt parties; that, he said, would be as futile as "the taking away of the partitions and the paper doors between the rooms of a Japanese house." Finally...
...build up these stock piles, RFC formed two $5,000,000 corporations last week: Rubber Reserve Co. (half of whose capital will be put up by the rubber makers) and Metals Reserve Co. To the former it planned to lend $65,000,000 to buy 150,000 tons of rubber; to the latter $100,000,000 to acquire 75,000 tons of tin and other strategic metals. London reacted promptly to the new demand, the international tin cartel upped its export quota from 100 to 130% of standard (or at the rate of 271,661 tons a year...