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...traditional way is to take $5,000,000, reconstruct downtown Bagdad in the outskirts of Las Vegas, hire three leading historians to supply the facts and six writers to grind them to a proper pulp, buy at least four big names for the marquee, get rolling with a colossal publicity campaign, and then hope that people will rush to see the picture before their friends tell them...
Christians Hold Together. What Adenauer does believe is the key to the strategy he has followed to reconstruct Germany and to promote the construction of Europe. He believes that...
Lavrenty Beria's fall, like H. Dumpty's, was a great event, and all the Russian experts in the West started trying to piece together facts, rumors and Communist propaganda lies in order to reconstruct their theories of what is going on in the Kremlin. Charles Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, probably knew as much about what had happened as any outsider could. But last week, when he flew home to brief the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Conference, it was apparent that even "Chip" Bohlen did not know much...
...major economic decision without considering its effects on Fiat. In addition to the 117,000 cars, trucks and buses it turned out last year, Fiat made two-thirds of Italy's tractors, three-quarters of its refrigerators, and much of its diesel and railroad equipment. It has helped reconstruct Italy in other ways. After the war, Fiat kept more men on its payrolls than were needed, and only recently has had work for them all. Explains Valletta: "If we had discharged all the people we didn't need, the result might have been revolution...
Free currencies have hardened most in those nations which worked hardest to reconstruct their war-shattered industries and to put their financial houses in order. Since Churchill's belt-tightening program, Britain's "free market" pound has risen from $2.35 in New York to close to the official rate of $2.80. West Germany's Deutsche mark has risen in value from 6? to around 22?, and is rivaling the Swiss franc for stability. Italy's lira, which sank as low as 915 to the dollar during 1948's fears of Communist election victories, is almost...