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...damages. To the Jewish Restitution Successor Organizations and the Jewish Community will go 9,600,000 Deutsch marks ($2,280,000). The city also agreed to forgive payment of a $333,000 loan it had made the Jewish Community to help in rebuilding synagogues and welfare buildings. Rebuilt to date: five synagogues, one hospital, one community auditorium...
...examinations the student detectives could most convincingly prove their value. The trained snoopers might serve as exam proctors, saving the University thousands of dollars a year. And with the saving in the first year, the Mather bulletin boards could be rebuilt in bronze: shiny, handsome, and indestructible...
...Then those who refused were asked: "Would you be prepared to be a solider perhaps under special circumstances?" Forty percent of this group still refused, and over half of the remainder said they would be willing to serve only in a defensive role-hardly an auspicious beginning for a rebuilt military machine...
Imports, at $10.1 billion, fell no more than industrial production. Furthermore, foreign nations, many of them rebuilt with the help of U.S. dollars and machines, were strong enough to keep buying from the U.S. at the rate of $14 billion a year, thus helped the U.S. get over its sniffles...
Contagious Enthusiasm. In his bustling life, Monnet, the son of a brandymaker in the French town of Cognac, has sold bonds on Wall Street, peddled wine to fur trappers of Hudson Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company and rebuilt a Chinese railroad, served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat (his passport was specially endorsed by "Winston S. Churchill"). But his finest hour came in 1950, when he persuaded French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to propose the supranational coal-steel pool. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning," Monnet argued. "The union of the peoples of Europe...