Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office. The American Association of University Women arranged to find homes for 3,000,6,000 children of British university graduates; the Committee for the Care of European Children prepared to aid families that wanted them but could not afford to take them; the Living Age Committee prepared to build communities outside cities where children could be harbored in units...
...Build our own defenses as energetically as we possibly...
...Monterrey, he has built a spectacular model military city for his troops. It has long been a Mexican Government practice to buy off influential generals of doubtful loyalty; and General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages, roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives...
While contradictory rumors still rumbled about the misunderstanding which occurred when Henry Ford turned down a contract to build 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines, the Defense Advisory Commission's William S. Knudsen last week faced about and offered the contract to Packard Motor...
Fortnight ago, when anti-war Henry Ford refused to build 6,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for Britain along with 3,000 for the U. S., he disappeared from the airplane engine picture so far as the Defense Advisory Commission in Washington was concerned. His offer to build 1,000 airplanes a day, generously discounted by airplane manufacturers, was all but forgotten. And last week the order was offered to Packard. But Henry Ford had not counted himself out of the problem of national defense...