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...bible, Weese used a book printed in 1899 that told the whole history of the building, right down to the names of the plumbers. He was able to reproduce exactly the original straight-backed chairs with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have...
...convinced that the sole sovereign, the German people, wishes to live in one state. This national will controls our actions." The letter was West Germany's first proposal for high-level talks with the East and thus one of the most radical changes in German policy wrought by the ten-month-old coalition of West Germany's two dominant parties...
...picketers represented the International Council of Christian Churches, which calls itself "the only militant church organization challenging the ecumenical movement and exposing the havoc wrought by modernism, Communism, and the growing power of Roman Catholicism...
...course. In the Caribbean and Mexico, where Beulah rampaged for two weeks before striking Texas, the storm took about 40 lives-in part because of inadequate radio warning. By the time she had deteriorated into a gusty rainstorm over south Texas at week's end, Beulah had wrought up to $1 billion in damage...
...rise, the regime had hoped to encourage more efficient investment and make the economy more responsive to consumer demand. But prices soared far above the anticipated levels, and industry made profits a bit too easily. The economy thus suffered, and the regime got scared at what it had wrought. Now it has restored many of the restrictions...