Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle-shocked Marine John Hodiak wakes up in a naval hospital suffering from amnesia, a fairly uncommon disease that appears to be as prevalent in Hollywood as the common cold. With little more than his discharge papers as a clue, Hodiak sets out to reconstruct his past. His unflagging curiosity gets him a few stiff rights to the jaw, raps on the head, unpleasant threats from sinister strangers and the love of pretty nightclub singer Nancy Guild (rhymes, her studio insists, with wild...
...more important that the Dutch concentrate on getting back their prewar share of the world's ocean trade, because that would bring foreign exchange to buy raw materials to reconstruct, expand. The U.S. loan negotiations had gone smoothly -$200,000,000, half of it from Washington, half from private U.S. banks. The interest rate, 2¼%, expressed U.S. confidence in The Netherlands' future...
...tell you what Stalin talked about. Before I left Washington I learned Russia would like a $6-billion credit from the United States. Now I understand Russia is prepared to become a good customer of the United States. Now, I believe Russia wants that credit to help reconstruct war damage and build up the living standard of the Russian people, and not for the purpose of further development of military power. Everything I've seen and everything that's been said to me strengthens that impression. Boys, I'm in favor of the United States furnishing Russia...
While Washington last week hemmed & hawed over the problem of helping the world's devastated countries to reconstruct themselves, Ottawa launched its own scheme. Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley announced a $15,000,000 credit agreement with Czechoslovakia. It was the first loan under the Dominion's new Export Credits Insurance...
Professor Perry believes that the ideas and ideals of America's founders are not obsolete in 1944. He believes with Stanford's Elton Trueblood (The Invention of America) that "the invention of America was more .important than the discovery of America." His purpose is to reconstruct the thought of the Puritans, to show its embodiment in American institutions, American government, American democracy. If writing can be "insipid with veracity," he says, "I am willing to be as insipid as necessary in order to be as veracious as possible. ... It is part of my purpose to rebuke cynics...