Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military government ruled it out on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy. Amidst the awful shambles of the German cities such notions of "free enterprise" are as irrelevant as Communism is noxious. It was a very conservative Bavarian who wailed, "How do Americans expect us to rebuild these cities without planning...
...devastated countries which will need help in rebuilding, France, having borne the brunt of German occupation on her twice-contested land, seems to me foremost. The pioneer French functional architect, Edouard Le Corbusier, an adviser to the French Minister of Reconstruction and Town planning, has estimated that 150,000 new communities will be needed in France to replace those destroyed. Speaking, however, of those civilians who must have immediate but temporary shelter, he says: "They don't want a new, clean, modern town. They just want to rebuild the same old hovels on the same old spots where their grandfathers...
...concerts there-the first one five days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne: it was the city where he had conducted the night before war was declared in 1939. But sentiment had a rider. Toscanini wanted a guarantee of 90,000 francs ($21,060) to help rebuild Milan's bombed La Scala Opera House...
...coffee is to the Brazilians or cotton to Mississippi growers. The comparison is less than fair considering the losses suffered by Luzon industry during the occupation and the unrest that has paralyzed attempts at large-scale industrial recovery. President Roxas will have all he can do to salvage and rebuild the old plants and mills. Conversion from a one-crop economy must be relegated to days when actual survival is not a day-to-day headache...
Their hopes were high: Protestant church attendance has already doubled since V-J day. Their plans were ambitious: a three-year evangelical program, in which 1,000-odd ministers and lay preachers will be expected to gain 3,000,000 converts.*To rebuild the 500 Protestant churches destroyed by American bombs, Japan's interdenominational Church of Christ has budgeted $3,500,000-90% of it to come from U.S. contributions...