Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber stands. With his newsprint plant furnishing an expanding market, Kurth estimates that farmers can get $5 to $7 an acre every year from timber alone, and "you don't need a subsidy or price support program...
After aid to refugee students comes relief for non-chartered universities. Many student clinics were damaged during communal rioting; WSSF is attempting to rebuild and restock them through funds raised in such drives as the present Council campaign...
...with Okinawa's problems, are recruiting a force of 60 to 80 planners to act as a kind of junior SCAP for Okinawa. At Naha, where in May 1945 U.S. forces encountered some of the invasion's stiffest Japanese resistance, U.S. engineers are busy with plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows of new F-80s and F-61s gleam in the sun, while some of the sleek jets whoosh overhead. In the makeshift hangars, mechanics work...
...Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour: to rebuild the ruined Kubelik fortunes, help pay off a $125,000 debt...
...little boy has grown into Gary Cooper with a mustache. He is a rising architect with the scars of an old would on his heart. He goes to Paris, where he sees his old house. He returns to England and goes to Yorkshire to rebuild some stables for the Duke of Tower. The Duke's wife--guess who she turns out to be--falls in love with him, and vice-versa. The duke walks in on them in her bedroom, pulls a gun, and gets killed as Cooper brains him with a chair, Cooper gets life in a prison...