Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunnels as long as 470 yards were dug out by pick & shovel. Roadbeds were rebuilt by men carrying soil in baskets. Ballast-300,000 cubic meters of it-was made by men with steel hammers cracking big stones into little ones. As many as 80,000 laborers daily toiled to put the line through. Meanwhile, through UNRRA and CNRRA came desperately needed equipment to eke out the little on hand: almost a quarter-million ties from the U.S. and Canada, a few used locomotives and worn boxcars from Persia and Iraq, old rails of any weight, from any source...
...again sending money from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to rehabilitate the coastal trade, and on the Chinese New Year nearly every Amoy citizen boasted the traditional (but in recent years unobtainable) new suit or dress. Inland, such cities as Hengyang and Changsha, once 98% destroyed, are 30% rebuilt. Pot-holed Canton streets are being repaired, and are expected to be shipshape in three months...
Unruly Aspects. Dulles saw the same challenge to U.S. leadership and enterprise all around the world. This was his extension of U.S. foreign policy: "Old societies need to be rebuilt. Sick societies need to be made well." U.S. society, better than any other, qualifies men to take the leadership in such restoration, said Dulles. "That, I say, is our belief...
This hypothetical wall has never been found, but for some time great stones have been showing up far outside the present wall. Recently the diggers found some more. Many believe that they are remains of the actual outermost wall and that the present wall, many times rebuilt, is Herod...
...through days enough to come, it is even conceivable that by next Christmas (if he survives this winter), this child and millions like him will have covering, as well, for the heads which must try to restore sanity to the world; the hands with which that world must be rebuilt; the knees on which to render gratitude...