Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warner & Swasey Co., the Cleveland machine-tool firm that has a reputation for conservatism, decided to help rebuild the city's riot-seared Hough section. This year, its executives persuaded Robert L. Coles, a Negro machinist and aviation-mechanics teacher, to ally his limping little C & B Machine Co. with Warner & Swasey in a joint venture. Together they created the Hough Manufacturing Co., whose ten Negro workers labor over turret lathes and milling machines. Warner & Swasey invested $250,000 to buy a three-story plant and provide operating capital. Coles got 200 shares...
...that might provide relief is better than doing nothing. The healthy liver not only performs dozens of vital metabolic chores, it is also an essential purification plant, purging toxic wastes from the bloodstream. Even diseased, the liver has a remarkable capability: it can often regenerate its damaged cells and rebuild lost tissues. The problem is to keep the patient alive while the liver is taking a recuperative holiday...
Kennedy and McCarthy forces have worked together since the spring and will in the future. The party has lost for too long--even a few of the more conservative office-holders wouldn't mind the McCarthyites helping to rebuild. By 1970 or 1972 the Washington party will probably be in McCarthyite hands...
...German scientists interned by the Allies, Hahn heard the news of the atomic bomb in England. Normally a man of dry, underplayed wit, he became so depressed by the appalling application of fission that his colleagues feared that he might commit suicide. Once back in Germany, Hahn struggled to rebuild the shattered remains of his old institute as president of its successor, the Max Planck Society. He also became an outspoken foe of atomic weapons. In 1957, joining the 17 other prominent West German scientists in the Göttingen Manifesto, he vowed never to take part in nuclear research...
...glass curtain walls, its spacious plaza (75% of the site), and bold positioning of horizontal slab and vertical shaft, it was revolutionary. More than any other, it set the style of office buildings in the 1950s and '60s. Even today, despite rumors that the company will tear down and rebuild it, Lever Bros, insists it will keep the building, proudly uses its silhouette to identify its products...