Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President denied that he was planning a direct approach to the Russians). But since the principle of the hydrogen bomb was also known to the Russians, temporizing was risky and might be fatal. The simple fact, unpleasant though it might be, was that if the Russians are likely to build an H-bomb, the U.S. will have to build...
Ambitious builders did not even wait for obsolescence. A fortnight ago, a firm took over the fashionable Ritz Carlton Hotel, announced that they would demolish it and build a more profitable 25-story office building on the site...
...Monuments. Most of the buildings would not even add a jag to the city's skyline. No one planned soaring towers like 1932's Empire State, or sumptuously spaced units like Rockefeller Center. Now buildings were built for quick profits. "We're not in this business to build monuments," said one contractor...
Last fall the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference decided to let Germany build ships of 7,200 tons, provided the speed did not exceed 13¾knots. German shipping men sulked at these limits, asserting that they could not compete with larger, faster vessels under other flags. On grounds of military security, the British have opposed all plans to expand German shipping. The Germans claimed that the British were afraid of German competition. Said a U.S. official: "The British are hipped on the subject. You'd think we were advocating that Germany get the atom bomb...
Last week, as Alice Nash completed her 50th year there, Vineland's 93 buildings spread over a broad, 1,100-acre campus. A hundred Vineland boys ran a 400-acre farm which helped feed the school's 550 students. The school had already fostered five other New Jersey institutions for the mentally retarded, served as the model for such schools as far away as Australia. The next step was a $1,000,000 fund-raising drive to build a new research center and expand the school's facilities...