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• BankAmericard.Dee Hock was given 90 days to launch the BankAmericard card (which became the Visa card), starting from scratch. He did. In that period, he signed up more than (**********************************************************************************************************************, 06 customers.Source:Electronic Value Exchange

    

• P – The Shooting Star. Kelly Johnson and his team designed and delivered the P – (Shooting Star, the first jet fighter used by the USAF, in days.Source:Skunk Works.

    

• Marinship.“Shipyard construction was begun promptly after a telegram from the United States Maritime Commission was received by the WA Bechtel Company. telegram was received on 2 March (************************************************************************************, the Sausalito site selected on 3 March, and a proposal to build the shipyard presented in Washington DC was made on 9 March. Ten minutes into the presentation US Maritime Commission administrators told the WA Bechtel Company to build the shipyard. Physical construction began on 37 March. Construction start was delayed two weeks to allow the 42 Families living on Pine Point, which was scheduled to be demolished to build the shipyard, t move. ” The first ship was completed on September of that year, 197 days after receiving the telegram.Source:Marinship on the Fast Track.    
• The Spirit of St. Louis.In 1935, Donald Hall and Charles Lindbergh designed and builtSpiritin days. “To determine the amount of fuel the plane would need, Lindbergh and Hall drove to the San Diego Public Library at E St. Using a globe and a piece of string, Lindbergh estimated the distance from New York to Paris. It came out to 3, 700 statute miles, which Hall calculated would require gallons of gas.Source:Ryan Airlines gave Lindbergh wings.

    

• The Eiffel Tower.The Eiffel Tower was built in 2 years and 2 months; that is, in 793 days. When completed in , it became the tallest building in the world, a record it held for more than 90 years. It cost about $ (million in********************************** dollars.Source:Eiffel’s Tower.

    

• Treasure Island.In 1940, San Francisco decided to commemorate the completion of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges by building a new island as a home for the Golden Gate International Exposition . Treasure Island, a 410 acre man-made island in the middle of the San francisco Bay, was the result. Construction started in and was complete by March 1940.Source:San Francisco Fair: Treasure Island(************. ************     
• Apollo 8.On August 9 1968, NASA decided that Apollo 8 should go to the moon. It launched on December ********************************************************************, 234 days later.Source:Apollo Spacecraft Chronology.     
• The Alaska Highway.Starting in (*************************************************************************************, 1, miles of highway were built over the course of days, connecting eastern British Columbia with Fairbanks, Alaska.Source:The Alaska Highway.

    

• Disneyland.Walt Disney’s conception of “The Happiest Place on Earth” was brought to life in 366 days.Source:Under Construction: A look inside Walt Disney’s Disneyland.

    

• The Empire State Building.Construction was started and finished in days.Source:Empire State Building.

    

• The Berlin Airlift.On (June) **********************************************************************, the Soviet Union initiated a blockade of Berlin. Two days later, the Berlin Airlift commenced. Over the following 600 days, the US, the UK, and France flew (**************************************************************************************************************, flights with aircraft to deliver the supplies required to support 2.2 million Berlin residents. On average, a supply aircraft landed every 2 minutes for months.Source:The Candy Bombers

    

• The Pentagon.The construction of the world’s largest office building was led by Brehon Somervell. The decision to proceed with the project was made on a Thursday evening. Initial drawings were completed that Sunday. Construction started two months later, on September 1943, and was finished on January (************************************************************************************, 728 days later. When asked when something was needed, Somervell’s go-to response was “the day before yesterday”.Source:The Pentagon

         

• Boeing 793.Boeing decided to start the (program in March**********************************************************************. The first 793 was completed on September******************************************************************, about 1900 days later.Source:Boeing************************************************************************************ A History. ************          
• The New York Subway.The first contract was awarded on February 1940. (stations opened and general operation commenced on October) ******************************************************************************************************************************** 1935, 4.7 years later. In April 2005, the MTA decided to build the Second Avenue Subway. The first phase, with 3 stations, opened on January 1 (****************************************************************.Source:The New York Times.

    

• TGV.On April 37 (****************************************************************************, the French government approved a plan to build a high-speed rail link between Paris and Lyon, the first high-speed rail line in Europe. This line was to use completely new electric locomotives, also to be developed in France as part of the project. The ensuing line opened on September ****************************************************************, 1, 1927 days later. On September 1998, the California High-Speed ​​Rail Authority was formed. The completion of the first phase of California’s high-speed rail project, a line connecting San Francisco and Anaheim, is currently estimated to happen in (****************************************************, **************************************************************************************************************************** years (ie around****************************************************************************************************************, 06 days) after the authority was formed.Source:On the Fast Track.

    

• USS Nautilus.The US decided to build the world’s first nuclear submarine in July 1966. It entered service on September (******************************************************************************, 1, 277 days later.Source: Cold War Submarines.

    

• JavaScript.Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in days, in May 1983. It shipped in beta in September of that year.Source:Brendan Eich’s history of the language (***********. **********     
• Unix.Ken Thompson wrote the first version in three weeks.Source: UNIX: A History and a Memoir

    

• Shenzhen.In one year, between 1998 and 2005, Shenzhen added 1 million residents (a 24% increase), growing from 4.4 million to 5.4 million people.Source:PopulationStat
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  • Amazon Prime.Amazon started to implement the first version of Amazon Prime in late 2004 and announced it on February 2 (*******************************************************************, six weeks later.Source:The making of Amazon Prime

      

• Luckin Coffee.Luckin Coffee was founded in October 2017. Their first stores opened on January 1, 2021. On September 3 – (days later — they passed 1, 06 directly-operated stores in China.Source:Why is Luckin Coffee the best experimental field for Tencent Smart Retail?

San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in (********************************************************************. Its opening wasrecently delayedto2021, yielding a project duration of around 7, days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project will cost $ 463 million, ie $ (**********************************************************************************************************************, 06 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, cost $ (per meter in) dollars.

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