Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nietzschean version? During the book's opening passages-for 300 or 400 pages, that is-the reader cannot be sure. Then the truth emerges: Author Ayn Rand, a sort of literary Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, is smashing the world with half a million words in order to rebuild it according to her own philosophy. And that philosophy must be read to be disbelieved...
...Yale-Connecticut game will be of special interest since the entire League will be waiting to see to what degree Yale coach Jordan Olivar has been able to rebuild his championship squad...
...road back was not entirely rocky. Since 40% of the plant remaining after Allied bombings had been dismantled and shipped all over Europe, the Krupp firm was able to rebuild with modern equipment that produced faster, better and more cheaply than its old equipment, then being used by the British, French and Russians. Even more important were the thousands of Krupp workers whose loyalty to the firm drove them to frenzied efforts to rebuild. This "Kruppianer spirit" was the fruit of a cradle-to-grave system of social security started by the company more than 100 years...
...Germans. Released, he went into voluntary exile in Switzerland, wrote poetry and painted while the Allies bombed Snia Viscosa into ruins. After the war, at the pleading of stockholders, he returned to Milan and pledged every penny of his personal fortune (by then well into the millions) to rebuild the firm...
Bouncing about among the opening-day crowd was foresighted Ernst Buchner, now 55, who had led the fight to rebuild the museum, and is once again its director. Said he. with just a touch of a lump in his throat: "A mile stone in the history...