Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to reconstruct the world? Answer: Having failed in the primary, basic effort of "reconstructing" America after an expenditure of fifty billions, we are now to try to reconstruct the world at a cost nobody has even taken the trouble to compute and with a probable destructive effect on our own economy which is at present becoming highly unpopular even to mention...
...seven weeks between June 27 and August 15, 18 to 20 college men, including a maximum of 15 from Harvard, will reconstruct a dam which was washed out fourteen years ago, causing considerable crop damage since then by allowing annual floods to prevent planting...
...that of America, and that of the service of the State and of labor, which is that of Nazi Germany." Still paying lip service to gold and liberal capitalism, the men of Vichy indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate to say that to the extent that French interests, our independence and our dignity are safeguarded, the new France must accept this invitation." Neither independence nor dignity was so much in evidence as a disposition to curry favor...
...French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized 100,000 workers...
...through the corridor, the Germans who had pushed to the sea would themselves be isolated. But every day, every hour made stronger the coil of power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been to defend that front were now coiled up like an anchovy on the wrong side of the German lines...