Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when a corporation has a claim, the battle is just starting. The corporation must then prove what its average earnings would have been if it had opened its new plant earlier, if the fire had not occurred, etc. The basic problem is to reconstruct something that never happened. This is roughly comparable, under the rules, to guessing how many angels can dance...
Digging into old files, the U.S. Weather Bureau had reconstructed maps of Northern Hemisphere weather, one for each day of the past 45 years. The task was laborious and expensive. Weather Bureau files, records of Allied Governments, all available ship logs were combed to reconstruct the temperature and pressure at 1300 GMT (3 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time) every day since 1899. The observations of peacetime German and Italian weathermen went into the maps...
...given to Montagu Norman to attempt to reconstruct a worldwide financial system after World War I. Last week few doubted that Britain had chosen well and shrewdly in selecting Lord Catto to shoulder the even tougher responsibilities that will emerge out of World...
...shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious man, who studies physics and biology for relaxation, he is too busy with new music to try to reconstruct many scores he was forced to leave in Europe...
Prop. In Chicago, Mrs. Josephine Skrodenis won a divorce when she complained that her husband, a murder-story fan, took up most of her evenings making her lie on the floor as the "corpse" while he tried to reconstruct the crime...