Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government should be helped. The only question was how, and on what terms. Nanking's immediate needs were higher than ever. Inflation ran unchecked, her armies were in danger of losing most of Manchuria, popular support was at a low ebb. Money was desperately needed to rebuild railroads and port facilities, to construct power plants. Nanking's own estimates of her needs ran to $2½ billion...
...Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave De Gasperi a vital chance to show Italians that he could run and rebuild their country without benefit of Communist assistance-if he could...
...Germany, it was set up by the Rev. Neil Nye, an R.A.F. warden, to supplement the secular re-education of young Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael's House has an all-German lecturing and administrative staff. A British priest acts as warden...
...countries commercially interdependent, compressed into an area the size of the U.S., and all going through their separate agonies of political and economic upheaval. But in spite of the retarding effects of domestic and border controls, the businessmen of Europe are doggedly, and in many cases aggressively, attempting to rebuild their enterprises...
Trek Toward Freedom. Much as the Koreans liked this evidence that the Americans really cared, they liked better the arrival of U.S. supplies to rebuild their country's shattered economy. The Communist Korean Government in the north was having its own difficulties; its food supply was shorter than that in the south, its regime unpopular with many of the people. But it had a Russian-equipped army at least 100,000 strong, and it did not have to contend with the confused intrigue of 200 political parties as Hodge did in the south. Nevertheless, there was still a chance...