Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travel the 1500-mile Trans-Andian Highway, he had to rebuild an old jalopy whose wheels came off repeatedly throughout the trip. Narrow roads were common, and at one point he had to telephone ahead 20 miles to make sure that the road was clear of ears coming in the opposite direction...
...architecture." In Tulsa, students started and helped carry through a revamping of the city's park system. One Tulsa junior high-school class took over as their own "problem house" a shack on the outskirts of town (just bought by a pair of newlyweds) and helped the couple rebuild, furnish, landscape and budget their home. One of the most Progressive school systems in the study, Tulsa also built two model Progressive high schools, named one for Will Rogers...
Jones, accused of being a bottleneck, needed an expediter and got a good one. Expansion-minded Clare Francis had long preached more production for the U.S., practiced it at General Foods. Back in 1935 he said: "We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories . . . rebuild, modernize." Now that the U.S. is rebuilding, Clare Francis' job is to see that nothing delays the job. Quartered near Jones's office in Washington, he no longer has time for the winter vacations he could take in his favorite Honolulu when he was preaching...
...would have been more spectacular to swing with both arms, hire & fire, tear down and rebuild. But Donald Nelson, the nation's new Production Boss, the man on whom the black blame or the golden praise for the U.S. war effort would now fall, did not work that way. Said Nelson: "We have got to make haste, but make it in the right direction...
Until the Nazis made him a commander of the first submarine flotilla in 1936 (he shunned formal affiliation with the Weimar regime, worked and was financed under cover), he had no official status. But years before the Nazis came to power he began preparing to rebuild Germany's U-boat Navy. There was not a single major step in the process that he did not dominate...