Word: rebuilders
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Alaska (3): The state's economy is based on federal spending, and Alaskans are banking on help from Washington to rebuild after last March's earthquake. Given Goldwater's dim view of big federal spending, a Johnson victory...
...export of foodstuffs to hungry allies by 35%. At the height of wartime passions, he urged that German and Austrian women and children be fed by the U.S. too. "I did not believe that stunted bodies and deformed minds in the next generation were the foundation upon which to rebuild civilization," he later explained. At war's end, Hoover headed a massive American relief effort in Europe, directed the delivery of 20 million tons of food and supplies to 300 million people in 22 countries...
...With such fiscal reforms if he can keep them up, President Robles hopes to rebuild U.S. confidence in Panama and encourage the aid he needs to press on with Alianza programs expanding agriculture, building more schools, homes and roads. The first step in regaining U.S. confidence would be to settle the current canal treaty differences and agree on a plan for a new, sea-level canal to replace the 50-year-old lock system. Both sides privately describe the discussions as "excellent...
...have sewage systems, and all efforts at city planning have failed in the discussion stage. Twice in its history-after the 1923 earthquake that took 100,000 lives and leveled half the city, and after World War II when it lay again in ruins-Tokyo had a chance to rebuild itself into a cohesive metropolis. Indeed, Ichiro Kono, the stocky, 66-year-old State Minister in charge of the Olympics and the man who is largely responsible for Tokyo's face lifting, blames General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. occupation for the latter-day failure...
...case in court. Oil supplies have been maintained by uncapping state-owned reserve wells, and some experts predict that Argentina will be forced to import oil before December. The beef industry is worse off. With herds decimated by two years of drought, cattlemen are holding back stock, hoping to rebuild. Monday and Tuesday have been declared meatless days, and Argentines have been faced with the ignominy of importing beef from neighboring Uruguay for the first time ever...