Word: rebuilded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between the generosity of thousands of donors and what cautious Administrator Hoover considered the real need of Wartime Belgians left the Belgian Relief Fund with a whopping surplus of $25,000,000 when the books were closed in 1919. This was split three ways: $9,000,000 to rebuild Belgium universities, $6,000,000 for a foundation for scientific research, $10,000,000 for exchange scholarships between Belgium...
...smote him with catastrophe. A Barbados Negro servant had run amok at Taliesin, murdered its mistress, her two children, an apprentice and three others, burned the living quarters to the ground. Wright went to Taliesin, buried his mistress alone, and lived there alone for months. Then he began to rebuild Taliesin. Finished in 1915, finer than before, the house was Frank Lloyd Wright's professional triumph over the worst blow of his life...
...hoaxed. The Dictator voted in Russia's recent election for a candidate whose claim was that as a Stakhanovite pacesetter he had increased his milling-machine output 9,000%. Last week the successful candidate's Soviet boss and fellow workers were revealed to have helped him to rebuild and alter two milling machines, greatly overspeeded, into whose cutters he jammed work at 20 times the rapidity at which they were designed...
...founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed by John W. Cutler had to start almost from scratch. As in C. D. Barney, the Manhattan office became the head office but, instead of concentrating on the brokerage business, E. B. Smith set out to rebuild its underwriting business. It got off on the right foot by floating the first public offering of International Telephone & Telegraph common stocks. I. T. & T. financing soon got too big for the firm to handle and went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory...
...Altogether the damage amounted to 140,000,000 francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed millions of francs to the restoration of Reims were the late ex-Empress Eugénie of France and John D. Rockefeller Jr.. the latter giving 15,000,000 francs to rebuild the roof, install a 13-bell carillon...