Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to reconstruct the original Elizabethan stage," Kilty disclosed, "and as a result, 'Richard II' will be our most ambitious undertaking...
According to Bonnet, Europe cannot revive without the help of the United States. "With capital industry destroyed, fields razed by war, and the effects of last summer's drought still being felt, France and her neighbors cannot hope to raise the funds necessary for buying essential imports to reconstruct the country without...
...This move is an inestimable tragedy to those hundreds of thousands of Jews in European DP camps who have been existing on a hope--the hope that they soon will be allowed to go to Palestine, the one place in the world where it is possible for them to reconstruct their lives. It is also a tragedy for those who had hoped that the UN would become an active force for justice and peace. And it is a tragedy for Americans that it should have been the United States that scuttled the UN in its first opportunity to become such...
...incorrect, too, to say that the General Agreement adds up to more barter and bilateralism and, probably, to a reduced flow of goods. It is true that this Agreement, in itself, will not suffice to reconstruct economies disrupted by the war, nor to correct the serious imbalance that now characterizes world trade. For this, other measures are now being considered by the countries of Western Europe and by the Congress of the United States. Until reconstruction is really under way and the present imbalance in trade substantially reduced, a large measure of bilateralism and even of barter will undoubtedly persist...
Costing an average of $600 for each student, the 1948 summer program offers the chance to live in French, German-, Spanish-, or English-speaking countries. Students will work in camps for under-privileged children, help farmers with harvests, reconstruct hospitals, and make bicycle trips...