Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanically-minded people on earth-the builders of 166,794 factories, of 65% of the world's automobiles-learned to their dismay that they did not have enough airplanes to fight the kind of war Hitler had loosed on the world, did not have enough trained men to build the plants that could create them. In a fury of frustration they jumped on each other, developed morbid fears of invisible enemies, chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great...
...Ambassador's declaration to Japan seemed to mean that they can wait. Adolf Hitler is a man who does one thing at a time. Last week he was preoccupied with trying to knock out his archenemies, Britain and France, and in the flush of that triumph to build his new Europe which Germany would dominate for 1,000 years. Although France and Britain were still on their feet, they were so groggy that spectators were busy speculating on what sort of Europe Adolf Hitler's Europe would...
...given him by Churchill when First Lord last year), is credited with discovering the secrets of German magnetic mines and how to beat them. Dr. Lindemann, whose friends call him "Prof," was a pioneer advocate of the present London balloon barrage, years ago vainly urged the Air Ministry to build fleets of robot planes which would be sent up by radio control to crash head-on into enemy bombers...
...years ago ?20,000,000 Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., the No. 1 British iron, sheet and tin-plate producer, decided to modernize. Its chairman, a forthright, anti-banker industrialist named Sir William John Firth, went to Pittsburgh and hired the experts of United Engineering & Foundry Co. to build him a continuous mill. They signed a contract for a giant (?8,500,000, 650,000 ton) rolling mill to be built in Lincolnshire, where Richard Thomas has steelworks...
Cagney: As the capstone to Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A few days after the preview, Producer Hellinger found Cagney's check for $100 in the mail...