Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other innocents will not come back-or are all the living Germans of today "good Germans"? As one who did not have to wait to be sorted out for the ovens, but who was lucky enough to get to the U.S., I feel we have done too much to build up Germany. A Nazi killer instinct cannot be destroyed in one generation. It will take a thousand years...
...amount of $40 billion. Not every dollar or even every million dollars of this has been wisely spent, but on the record the program stands as a unique effort in the history of nations of one country's using its power and its wealth to try to build up a prosperous, orderly free world...
Five-Cent Coffee. But the nation's mood was wariness-not despair. Many a family was taking advantage of easier credit to buy or build the house that "tight money" kept out of reach during the 1957 boom. Federal Housing Administration loan applications during 1958's first eight weeks added up to 31,929, as against 18,662 in the same span...
This showed especially in the "Egmont" Overture, a piece built upon tensions and climaxes which were just not there. But even crueller were passages in the second and last movement of the Symphony, which build to powerful, triumphant counter-rhythms that were simply diluted away. The majestic main theme of the finale never reached a logical fulfillment. The examples go on and on; always the inevitability of Beethoven's structure was underplayed or destroyed...
...companies have canceled plans to build big (70,000 tons and up) supertankers. Most shipyards are still booked solid into 1960. But the rest of the ship market has all but collapsed. Tanker charter rates have been cut more than 90% in one year, and prices for used ships are just as bad. "A year ago," said one ship broker, "it was impossible to buy a T-2 tanker for less than $4,250,000. Now it's impossible to get $1,000,000 for such a vessel...