Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accumulated U.S. profits of six years, some $80,000,000, are again flowing to Rotterdam. Some of them will be used to rebuild Unilever plants on the Continent, although they were comparatively little damaged. Some will go to pay N.V. stockholders a whopping back dividend of 29.6%, announced last week. Probably Unilever Ltd., which has never missed a dividend (10% in prewar years), will now boost its wartime rate...
...efforts for large-scale reconstruction projects. Even in completely leveled towns like Saint-Dié in the Vosges mountains, deep-rooted French villagers wanted just what they had before the war. Sighed Le Corbusier: "They don't want a new, clean, modern town. They just want to rebuild their same old hovels on the same old spots where their grandfathers built them...
...nations hungry for funds to rebuild their war-ravaged economies, Bretton Woods had become more important than ever. The Netherlands, France, Czechoslovakia and China were expected to request loans at the present session...
After six months of Russian occupation, Manchuria's industry is destroyed; it was apparently the Soviet Union's dual desire to rebuild Russia's own factories with Manchurian equipment, and to weaken China on her Asiatic flank. Mukden has been reduced from a great industrial city into a tragic, crowded way station on the Russian-controlled railroad to Dairen. A strong China is not Russia...
...newsman asked: "Don't you think we ought first to rebuild Nanking and Manila...