Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monuments & Managers. The monuments are all the more impressive because they are new. One of the secrets of Europe's success is that the war forced the Europeans to build a new production base and incorporate the latest U.S. advances. West Germany's Daimler-Benz had to rebuild almost from scratch, estimates that 80%-90% of its mammoth complex (1959 production: better than 260,000 units) is new since World War II. France's booming aluminum industry boasts that its technology is second to none. Italy's Pirelli tire and rubber company claims the same...
...Back in the late 1940s, the U.S. was the principal source of the world's manufactured goods, exported far more than it imported. Result: even with U.S. tourists spending millions abroad, U.S. troops stationed around the world, U.S. Marshall Plan dollars pouring into Western Europe to rebuild shattered economies, and Point Four aid flowing to underdeveloped countries, the U.S. ran up a surplus in its overall international accounts. Gold trickled into the U.S. Treasury from abroad...
Ideally, U.S. policy aims toward a free world of independent nations bound together in growing prosperity by a thriving, dependable free trade. Realistically, the U.S. has poured billions overseas to rebuild the industrial nations and finance the undeveloped, while many a rebuilt, well-financed country has maintained tariff walls against U.S. goods or tight controls on dollar purchases. Samples: Britain still limits or bars a long list of U.S. goods ranging from construction machinery to comic books; France excludes U.S. bourbon while buying British Scotch; Japan requires licensing for 70% of her imports, will not let Japanese businessmen buy some...
...reconstructing the entire interior, rather than building a whole new structure the University saved at least $800,000"--an important factor in this period of continually rising costs. Its convenient location on the main pathway between the Houses and the Yard close to Widener helped clinch the decision to rebuild and not to build anew...
...rebuild the interior entirely, construction workers had to replace all of the old wooden beams and window sashes with steel ones. Hoisting the 54-foot steel supports for the new floors through the windows without knocking down the building's shell made it "the toughest job I've ever come across," Aspasquella observed...