Word: erects
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Engineers (who have excavated 600,000 cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...
...coal mines imaginable. . . . Working conditions so arduous that the labor turnover exceeds 100% per year. . . . Miners on all fours, crawling down (sometimes sideways like crabs) to reach their work a mile and a half underground. . . . Red taskmasters sure that to cut passages high enough for the miners to stand erect would cost too much...
...knew their money was gone : when a fighter falls on his face he seldom gets up. At the count of seven Singer flopped over on his back. His face was under the ropes and looking up he took hold of the middle rope, pulled himself half erect. But the count had ended and he had lost his title...
What he has been working on for the past decade is a monumental Arch of War and Peace which he expects to erect by himself and at his own expense as his gift to the city. There is nothing niggardly about the Barnard Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...
...movement succeeds we shall erect a people's tribunal before which the November criminals of 1918* shall expiate their crime and I frankly predict you shall then see their heads rolling in the sand...