Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Understandably upset over the disaster, Governor Bernard induced the Legislature to vote funds to rebuild Harvard Hall, to buy a fire engine for the College and to aid students who lost books and furniture. Donations of money and books were sent from all over the Colonies-and even from the Mother Country. Two years later Harvard Hall was reconstructed at a cost...
...fanatically pro-British," Grivas had told a friend on leaving Cyprus. "But the British made us bitter. It is for them to rebuild this friendship now." And what now for him? "My dream is to return to Cyprus," said Grivas. On that unsettled island, its leader, bearded Archbishop Makarios, who had persuaded Grivas to lay down his arms, said cautiously: "After the Republic of Cyprus is formed, I see no objection." By that time next year, the British, whom Grivas had fought, would have only a base on Cyprus...
...Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should wear wimples in August; that the Duke of Edinburgh should open a Joust in full armour." Around Lord Illius himself clot applauding yes men, tame academics and cultural parasites, all out to dazzle the bored and lonely multitude...
...help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's cash reserves was finally completed. Discovery: in five years. Dictator Batista squandered $423 million, leaving the country with only $110,710,947, or some $60 million less than the legal minimum. To rebuild the reserves, a system of import licenses was clamped on a long list of goods-with the promise of stiff controls if dollar-draining imports are not held down...
...trying to lay in enough steel for their 1959 models and part of their 1960 production, guaranteed their suppliers against loss if they in turn would buy ahead. But many a steel user who had let his inventories get close to bottom was discovering that it was hard to rebuild them enough for strike protection. Allowing for the probable rise in consumption, the maximum buildup in inventories by midyear was expected to be only about 6,000,000 tons, just about what would normally be needed for current needs at that time...