Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been suddenly whisked from the face of the seas. The question meant: Where is the attacking power of the U.S.? The answer was that it was being built-by work on a scale big enough to make up all its losses, in an industry big enough to rebuild it entirely if that should ever be necessary, and by the people who were building it even while they asked the question...
...spigot of the oil of Baku" when they took the place, now called it "just another town." Russian spokesmen, having belittled the loss of the Donets Basin on the grounds that all industries were either removed or sabotaged beyond recovery, now gravely explained: "It is obviously easier to rebuild an existing plant than to erect a new one, particularly when skilled workers and technicians who are familiar with the damaged works are available...
...earlier years, when he was building the Philadelphia Orchestra to one of the world's greatest, he made legitimate use of tonal opulence. But his baroque conception of sound has lately given NBC many a headache. Sooner than rebuild its woolly-sounding Studio 8-H to his specifications, NBC hired an old auditorium (Cosmopolitan Opera House), opened the broadcasts to a paying audience...
...baby its shoes, that its traffic problems are the worst in the U.S., that some of its wide suburban reaches are so sparsely populated that the inhabitants can't afford to buy a sanitary sewage system. If the city planners could burn Los Angeles down they would rebuild it very differently...
...ways at Newport News in 1933. Almost all the regular U.S. carriers of today are designed to do around 30 knots, and none in the world is as big as the Lexington and Saratoga. Last week came a report that, in case of war, the U.S. might seize, rebuild and commission the biggest, fastest, costliest aircraft carrier in history: the 83,000-ton, 35 -knot liner Normandie, now "under pro tective custody," which cost the French Government...