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...company to cover the retreat of their main force. Though the French said they killed more than a hundred of the enemy and that their own losses were much smaller, they did not come off unscathed. Some were cut down by a group of Communists out for mortar practice, who fell on the paratroopers with small arms and knives before they could free themselves of their chutes...
Rubble Lift. Under Brauer's direction, three narrow-gauge railroads were driven into Hamburg's ruins to cart out the rubble; at the peak one train ran every ten minutes, loaded with 4,000 tons of scrap steel and mortar. Hamburg rebuilt faster than any other city in Germany: 130.000 homes. 52 schools, enough new jobs to employ 65,000 more workers than prewar. Shipping shot back to 70% of normal, production rose 6% over 1936. Back to its prewar population of 1,600,000, Hamburg once more became West Germany's biggest city...
...school rule. I said 'Where is it?' She said, 'They won't allow it.' I said, 'Who's they?' She said, 'The school.' I said, 'What d'ye mean, the school? That's bricks and mortar; it can't talk.' She said, 'Eva looks smart in school rig.' I said, 'She didn't look so smart...
...Bricks & Mortar. The American most concerned with Korea's economic plight is 53-year-old C. (for Clinton) Tyler Wood, a Princeton man, onetime Wall Street broker, State Department aide and now economic coordinator between the U.S., the U.N. and the ROK government. Wood is no economic czar. Says he: "Korea is a sovereign nation and we've got to remember that all the time...
...Wood and his U.N. and Korean counterparts will spend $628 million, more than half of it from the U.S., on Korean reconstruction. Koreans wanted 70% of the money spent on capital goods, but Wood disagreed on the grounds that "if you put all your money into bricks and mortar for factories which will take two or three years to pay off, you'll have lost the battle against inflation." Last week Wood won his argument for consumer goods. In the approved budget, $132 million will go for military supplies, $198 million for capital investments, and a whopping $298 million...