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...dukes and princes of Bavaria and now sheltered in the austerely classical Alte Pinakothek. The museum itself was completed by King Ludwig I in 1836. Allied bombs destroyed it in 1944, but the collection had been safely stored away in scattered castles and an Austrian salt mine. Rebuilt almost exactly as before, the museum now has 650 pictures of major importance on permanent view...
...Union power became a chronic source of cost-pushed price upcreep. Despite McDonald's public relations triumph over steel, the nation is still tired of that upcreep and is groping for ways of halting it. And ahead looms the newer, more urgent problem of competition from the rebuilt industries of Western Europe and Japan. The power of Big Labor to keep pushing up labor costs beyond gains in productivity has dulled U.S. industry's once-keen competitive edge in world trade -and the competition will get tougher in the decade ahead...
Shunted to a lowly post when Eden succeeded Churchill, Marples came back when Macmillan became Prime Minister and appointed him Postmaster-General. Marples moved right in again, helped sort letters, traveled on all-night mail trains, walked the rounds with letter carriers, painted and rebuilt sagging post offices, revamped the telephone system and cut long-distance rates. Then he became Transport Minister, in charge of the nation's road, rail and sea services...
After the discovery of the broken set, a small crew of Adams House men worked until midnight New Year's Eve to rebuilt it, despite the absence of the designer and technical director, William E. Schroeder...
...Japanese had rebuilt their country so fast that they had been able to send $1.2 billion worth of investments overseas (including a Bank of Tokyo branch in Los Angeles), and had become a creditor instead of a debtor nation for the first time in history...