Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wages Up. In the boom's early years, profits went mainly into the pockets of owners and managers, or back into expansion. Labor docilely withheld wage demands while industry rebuilt, and heeded the argument that costs had to be kept low to compete in international markets. Now workers and salaried white collar people are sharing in the benefits of the economic "miracle." Since 1948, wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often...
...wanted fame," Wright confessed in later years. "Instead, I became notorious." As the Depression of the '30s closed in, Wright went bankrupt, finally incorporated himself and turned the rebuilt Taliesin into an apprentice school for architects. When the Museum of Modern Art staged its historic 1932 show of International Style architecture, Wright was represented, but in effect considered already dead and buried...
Fuggerei, as the walled district came to be known, was 80% destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in October 1944. But it has been rebuilt in the old style-a quiet place of little yellow-and-green medieval houses, where vehicular traffic and "noisy trades" are prohibited, and where the four gates are locked at 10 p.m. nightly, as they have been since 1521. Anyone who stays out too late must...
Along the waterfront of Poland's rubble-strewn Szczecin (formerly Stettin) towering cranes on six miles of rebuilt docks load and unload freight at the annual rate of 4,000,000 tons. In Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) bright new arc lights along the main streets have ended years of dim nights in the city's bomb-shattered center. After years of neglect, Poland's "western territories," the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers taken from Germany after the war, are slowly emerging from postwar desolation...
...possibly be his own: "The interminable meetings, the litter of cigarette stubs, the hasty sandwich at the desk . . . the call from the White House, the postponed dinner, the neglected wife, the office lights burning late into the night, the lilacs hanging in fragrance above Georgetown gardens while men rebuilt the nation over long drinks...