Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eventually I came to the point when I knew I disapproved of many actions of the Russians. The control mechanism began acting against me and kept me from looking at facts. I still believed Russia would build a new world and that I would take part...
...Italian-born father started him at 19 in the family metals plant in Sāo Paulo. Not long afterwards, the father died. Taking over the business, Baby resolved to build an industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business...
Denver was not a frontier for long. By 1902 it had 37 schools-and its rising school population was beginning to outgrow them. Stately Superintendent Aaron Gove added sewing and cooking to the still rigid curriculum; roughriding Lucius Hallett bulled through a $6,000,000 bond issue to build three new high schools and enlarge ten other buildings; under able Jesse Newlon, teachers finally won a single salary scale. During the 1920s the city saw 26 new schools rise up all over town. But the race between the rising buildings and rising enrollments never seemed to stop. When 43-year...
...hope of closing Britain's lead in jet transport planes, the Defense Department had recommended a $30 million congressional appropriation to build two jet transports. Last week Air Secretary Symington told the Senate Commerce Committee that the Bureau of the Budget had turned thumbs down on the bill to build the transports. It looked as if the U.S. would not get jet transports for a long, long time...
...spending to the bone. The course was unpopular in Belgium, and Gutt fell from power. But last week gutty Mr. Gutt, now head of the International Monetary Fund, had his reward. The Fund announced that Belgium had paid in full the $33 million loan borrowed two years ago to build up its dollar reserves. It thus became the first European nation to wipe out its debt to the Fund.* Said one Fund official: "If it weren't for Gutt, Belgium would not be able to repay...