Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiroshima's Acting Governor Shigeru Kojo peered through tortoise-shell glasses and smiled through gold-capped teeth at the U.S. newsmen. They had come to a special press conference to hear a special plea: would it not be a splendid gesture if America helped rebuild the first city leveled by an atomic bomb...
Missouri mules made themselves at home on Yugoslavia's tiny farms. Purebred bulls had been sent to rebuild herds slaughtered during the war. Tractors and plows were on hand to turn the earth of hundreds of farms. Pumps and pipes from the U.S. and Britain have restored Athens' water supply...
There was Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who sat stony-faced, trying to maintain the comfortably superior attitude of an officer and a gentleman. His was the first sobering shock: the prosecution's account (compiled from German Navy archives) of his pre-Hitler (1932) efforts to rebuild the German Navy in defiance of Versailles. The record read: German submarines had been constructed in Spain and Finland; crews had been trained in The Netherlands...
...Dear Mr. Wright: TIME'S quotation of your conversation with them ... is entirely false. I was present when you spoke over the telephone to them and in reply to their questions you said: 'No, I have received no request from Japan nor from anyone to rebuild the part of the hotel that was damaged-but even if I were to receive such a request I would have to turn it down because I am much too busy at work building in my own country to go to any other country to build at this time. Besides, I prefer...
...basic economy of the Islands, still largely controlled by the U.S. Army, was still very sick. Little had been done to solve the Islands' biggest problems: 1) shattered transportation lines; 2) the lack of money to rebuild homes and industry...