Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlement into Auraria City (after Russell's hometown in Georgia) and Denver City (after Governor James W. Denver). In 1860 a bridge across the creek was finished, people from both sides met on the bridge by moonlight, shook hands, made speeches and the name Auraria City was dropped. Since bricks were cheaper than lumber where few trees grew, brick houses soon replaced the rows of frame shacks...
More serious trouble was presented by the Treasury's attempt to repossess Government property on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, three blocks west of the Capitol. Wholesale warehouses, a cheap hotel, automobile showrooms, a Chinese restaurant and an undertaking shop occupied the row of old ugly brick buildings on this site. The U. S. had bought up the land as part of its plan to beautify the Federal City (TIME. May 6, 1929). The plot was to be converted into a park. Wreckers had knocked the walls out of the buildings when the B. E. F. began to arrive...
...veterans swelled to thousands as men flocked from other B. E. F. camps to the scene to watch the eviction. By noon the buildings had been practically cleared when a trio of veterans carrying a U. S. flag tried to march back in. Police blocked them. Somebody tossed a brick. "There's a fight!" went up the cry. More bricks flew...
...upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
Public Printer for Congress and the Government is George H. Carter (salary: $10,000). In his massive red brick plant near Union Station, he heads the largest printing shop in the world. His payroll numbers 4,845. In 1931 he made and used 185,885 Ib. of ink, 83,957 Ib. of bindery glue. He bought $2,692,297 worth of paper on which 88,524,736 copies of Government publications were turned...