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...Government's rickety but strategically important Alaska Railroad, the one all-weather link (470 miles) between Seward on the coast and Fairbanks in the interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
...Better World. In the nightclubs, songsters croon: "In a year, when Old Stephen will be as it once was. . . ." But it will be more like five years before the gutted cathedral will be rebuilt. Once, right after the liberation, hope of revival centered around Saint Stephen's, and men & women of all classes worked and carted away the sacred rubble. Now, foraging for food is more important...
...smashed cathedrals are being rebuilt about as they were originally constructed-by a handful of aged craftsmen, hardly able to continue their work for lack of food, slowly and carefully chipping at large blocks of stone with hand chisels. As to the time it would take, one hoary stonecutter, working in the ruins of a Nurnberg cathedral, calmly said, "Oh, maybe 25 years...
...theater is completely rebuilt. We asked a city architect why it had been rushed when housing was so desperately short. He answered: "We wanted our people, who have endured so much, to have some happiness now and a visible pledge of more happiness to come...
...broadening the paper's scope with articles by Chinese and U.S. contributors, he has rebuilt its circulation to 7,500. But few English-reading students and teachers can afford to pay $2,000 (about 16?) a copy. Wrote one reader in Chekiang Province, canceling his subscription...