Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...
...diesel-electric locomotives. Piggyback cars for carrying trucks have been increased until they produce $2,000,000 in revenue each year (100 more, plus 115 air-conditioned passenger cars are on order for 1954), and Dumaine has torn up 340 miles of track no longer needed and rebuilt 400 miles of roadbed at a cost of $10,000,000. Says he: "You must spend money to make money...
...Over the next four years, the enrollment is likely to jump another 25%. Yet the government has not only failed to provide for this expansion; it has also failed to provide funds for repairs. The bombed-out municipal lycée in Brest, for instance, has never ' been rebuilt. The law faculty of the Sorbonne has had to expand into a building usually used for boxing bouts. Meanwhile, the Sorbonne's laboratories are hopelessly short of equipment: instead of the precise metal weights needed for experiments, students must make do with weights crudely fashioned out of cardboard...
Meanwhile, a large-scale repair job that will be concluded this spring involves the west end of Memorial Hall, where the large stained-glass window was removed last fall for strengthening. The window, whose lead frames tended to shake when struck by strong winds, has been rebuilt during the winter, and will be replaced in the Hall's west wall when the weather improves...
...bigger than ever. And while the old cartels have been officially banned, price-fixing and trade agreements still play an important part in the German economy. A strong movement is afoot to legalize cartels again, despite the opposition of Economics Minister Erhard and the evidence of how free competition rebuilt the country...