Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the training camp, troops graduate to the volcanic black sand beaches not far away. There, facing the mainland, they build concrete pillboxes, string barbed wire, drill endlessly to repel the invasion from the sea. In their off-duty hours, the soldiers sing a new army song...
...final assault on network listeners. Keeping his local jobs, he undertook to broadcast over CBS without salary until he had lined up some sponsors. Further, he convinced CBS that he should be left on the air regardless of what the Hooperatings revealed. "It takes a long time to build up loyalty on a daytime show," he says. "I figured I had at least five years' work ahead...
...privately owned, the company never reports its gross or net. It has an annual payroll of $5,000,000; sales last year mounted to 6,000,000 pairs, four times the prewar level, yet it still has to ration its output to dealers. Last week, Haas was planning to build still more factories-farther east. Like old Levi's Levis, Haas's Levis still bear the familiar boastful trademark-two horses vainly trying to pull apart a pair of pants. Now & then, some waggish farmer actually hitches up two horses and pulls a pair of Levis apart. "Whenever...
...collective weakness of the supporting east was obvious in the final act, which contains the longest and most important section of the play from which Lear is absent. The main purpose of the act in the build up a feeling that there has been enough suffering, so that the later hanging of Cordelia and the expiration of Lear will have a more powerful tragic effect. The actors fail to build up this feeling of satiety, so that Lear's entrance, bearing Cordelia, does not have the powerful impact is should have, until Devlin rebuilds the structure himself...
With the heel mill done, Cray thought he might soon build a heel-covering mill or a purse factory on the same basis, was pondering his chances of bucking potent New England power companies by putting up an independent generating plant on the Connecticut River. In any case, his financing plan was a free-enterprising alternative to talk in New England of state or city development authorities to finance such projects. "No authority," says Cray, "could have built that heel plant for what it cost me. When something like this gets into politics, if it doesn't get corrupt...