Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof, wrote the dissenter, that it was Betsy who had made the first American flag. "It is a sad day indeed when governmental agencies start promoting romantic rumors as though they are historical facts." Nonsense, retorted Donaldson's philatelic experts. A. Atwater Kent had spent good money to refurbish the Ross house in Philadelphia as a historical shrine; the Daughters of the American Revolution had approved the stamp; furthermore, "even if it is a myth, it is a pleasant one . . . that has been in all the history books and which all the school children love...
While she was being put back in shape, the rechristened Liberté tore loose from her moorings in a storm, knocked a hole in her hull and sank on a mud bank. The French Line spent almost $20 million to raise and refurbish the ship. The sum was roughly equal to the Europa's original cost, but it was only about one-fourth the postwar cost of building such a vessel. The French Line hoped the sleek liner would earn back the money on the profitable Atlantic...