Word: rebuilded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small doles, without any explicit campaign for economic betterment. Now it proposes to give to the idle a gift more permanent than money, the technical knowledge that will enable them to find work. Also, it proposes to give to business leaders the information that will help them to rebuild the economic world intelligently. In this way, the practical value of books, now known to a relatively small number of alert individuals, is to become widely known through the force of national publicity...
Years ago he had a laboratory in Houston Street, Manhattan. It burned down. He lacked money and desire to rebuild. He had an apartment in midtown Manhatttan, in West 40th Street opposite the Public Library whose engineering room he still occasionally haunts, and near the Engineers Club which he no longer will visit. In that apartment he kept a few terrifying but harmless lightning machines. The swank St. Regis Hotel whither he moved two years ago was no place for such devices. Dr. Tesla contented himself with studying four pet pigeons which nested in his rolltop desk. Maids complained...
Ensued nearly ten years of neglect. Rust nearly did what the British Navy could not, but in 1926 the French shipbuilding firm of Penhoet at St. Nazaire, builders of the liners Ile de France, Paris and France, offered to rebuild her. The Turkish Government accepted on condition that the entire job be done in Turkey...
...believe that private buying is going to employ the masses of the people again. . . . The obvious thing is to consider the immense architectural possibilities. We must accept the responsibility of rehousing all mankind, rebuilding every city in the world and reclaiming roads and countryside. I think we can well look forward to the time when towns will rebuild themselves as we now go to the tailor for a new suit of clothes...
...City, As the hot days wore on, people everywhere realized one great difference between this earthquake and most others of recent date. San Francisco. Tokyo, Naples have been wrecked by earthquake. All have risen again. But Managua, Nicaragua's capital, seems doomed. There is no money to rebuild the city. Last week the brewery and the power house were the only habitable buildings still standing. Hour by hour it became increasingly apparent that the city must be, like the ancient Mayan cities of Mexico, abandoned to the vulture, the lizard, the tapir, the rank jungle. Managua was a pretty...