Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rubble Lift. Under Brauer's direction, three narrow-gauge railroads were driven into Hamburg's ruins to cart out the rubble; at the peak one train ran every ten minutes, loaded with 4,000 tons of scrap steel and mortar. Hamburg rebuilt faster than any other city in Germany: 130.000 homes. 52 schools, enough new jobs to employ 65,000 more workers than prewar. Shipping shot back to 70% of normal, production rose 6% over 1936. Back to its prewar population of 1,600,000, Hamburg once more became West Germany's biggest city...
...bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people. In three years, 600,000 homes have been destroyed; because of a high birth rate and the influx of tens of thousands of refugees, 900,000 new or rebuilt houses are needed. Coal production is down 50% from prewar. Grain output, the core of Korea's economy, is off from 3,500,000 tons to 2,300,000. In a nation whose gross national product is $1.4 billion, property damage is estimated anywhere from $1 billion...
Next season, the Browns, rechristened the Orioles,* will move into Baltimore's rebuilt, 51,000-seat municipal stadium, which will be the fourth biggest ballpark in the majors...
Slicing through the cloud-mantled mountains and the coastal rain forests, through cactus-fenced pastures and corn-clad canyons, four major paved highways now march from the U.S. border to Mexico City. New roads, rebuilt railroads and oil pipelines now crisscross the countryside. Some sleepy towns of yesterday have become buzzing 20th century cities. Colonial Salamanca, seat of the government's big new oil refinery, looks like a Texas oil town by night, with its orange flares glowing over pipes and vents...
...creating a tremendous need for more tractors, fertilizer, soil conditioners and other means of increasing food production. Millions of new houses, telephones, appliances and autos, plus more schools, railroad passenger cars and freight cars, will be needed. Government experts estimate a minimum need of 1,400,000 new or rebuilt housing units a year for the next decade, just to keep abreast of growth. Many of the houses themselves will have to be bigger, for the size of families is increasing (the number of fourth children being born this year exceeds...