Word: repaired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facing material and moral bankruptcy which we never before have known. We must act with energy and perseverance that must be felt in intense form so that the Administration may repair the errors...
Communications. All principal roads and railways have been repaired, involving the repair and rebuilding of 35,397 miles of roads and 1,588 miles of railway. A number of canals also had to be repaired and made navigable...
...impress one as a complete microcosm, indeed a big world of its own. I was surprised at the large number of shops and business houses open. . . . As I expected, the city itself shows evidences of disrepair. I saw no new buildings under construction, but numerous old buildings are undergoing repair. Many of the ill-paved streets are in the hands of contractors, who are restoring them. The thousands of horse-drawn droshkys, which correspond to our cabs of other days, and hundreds of small but loaded vehcles , emphasize that there is life in this city...
...remainder of the South has been similarly affected, but on the whole probably not so seriously. Tennessee and Kentucky are least affected. But the length of time which it will take the South to repair its losses is indicated by an increase of Negro population of only 1.9% from 1910 to 1920. The condition is further aggravated by the steady fall of the Negro birth rate. Due almost totally to this cause, the increase of Negro population throughout the country declined from...
...Poincaré said that Lloyd George professed to be aloof and indifferent to the efforts made by France to repair the devastated areas...