Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German control pattern is followed, much of Japan's machinery may go to aid in the reconstruction of China and other victimized countries. Some that cannot be removed will be destroyed because it formed the base of Japan's war potential. The remainder will be needed to rebuild the shattered railroad system and the cities...
Last week the U.S. position was: planes with atomic bombs could reach any spot in the world. When they got there, they could destroy so much faster than the victims could rebuild that surrender was the onlv possible result...
...wheels, engines and other parts, carried them along paths which at one point soared 2,000 feet above the road. On the other side of the chasm the jeeps were reassembled, and Fraser's men sped after the Japs. The Igorot women stayed behind to help the engineers rebuild the road...
Berlin is not a dead city. Three million people still live in Berlin and most of them will probably keep on living here and rebuild their city when they can. The arteries through which a city's life blood flows-the streets, water mains, gas mains, sewage pipes, electric lines, subways-are either intact or being repaired. The destruction above ground is impressive, but Berlin is still a city...
Until they can rebuild their city Berliners will live in hardship, but the degree of hardship can also be exaggerated. Compared to life in any city in the U.S., it would be extreme. Compared to the Parisian twelve weeks after Paris was liberated, the Berliner is not so badly off. His greatest lack is shelter, which he finds by living in cellars, in temporary wooden barracks, or, in most cases, with somebody else. This is uncomfortable in the summer. In cold weather, as the Parisians found last winter, it makes it a little less cold...