Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helping to construct a 50-kilowatt short-wave station at Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. Another powerful transmitter is to be erected five miles away at Léopoldville, Belgian Congo. Neither will be in operation until next year...
...naval builders could report that it was taking them only about three times as long to construct destroyers as it took Henry Kaiser's West Coast yards to slap together Liberty ships. One yard will build 21 destroyers this year-equivalent, says the Navy, to 105 Liberty ships. Prior to 1940, building time for a DD was 27-28 months. In 1942: eight months. Other samples of the speedup...
...volume devoted to a criticism of the present order of social studies is well worth the attention of every person interested in them. The old myths--economic man, the political anidevastating logic. After proving the inapplicability of completely separate fields of inquiry, the author goes on to construct his own inclusive theory...
...people of the Moscow area number more than 8,000,000. They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat...
Scholar Siepmann is convinced that radio permits the concentration of power in the hands of a few-power to blast social concepts, to construct or destroy. He is appalled by the fact that of the 500 U.S. universities offering radio courses, only four (Harvard, Princeton, U. of Southern California, Lancaster, Pa.'s Franklin and Marshall College) touch on its social implications...