Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dratvin had tossed a brick during one of last month's Coordinating Committee sessions (where most of the spade work for the more publicized Control Council is performed). He called for a four-power investigation to find out whether the British were keeping German army units poised in their zone. Britain agreed. Then the U.S. representative, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, went further: "While we're at it, let's have a real investigation of economic disarmament in all zones...
...Littleboro, Lancashire, the countryside tells a century of cotton history. There are the old cottages, where women used to hand out woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff...
Provincial Premier Thomas Douglas believes that CCF needs four years to round out its program. At the halfway mark its program looked more than halfway impressive. Saskatchewan's publicly owned industrial empire already comprises eleven Crown corporations: printing and brick plants, a woolen mill, box factory...
Some soldiers overstayed their leaves, and in the rickety brick barracks that served as Lichfield's guardhouse, they spent anywhere from two weeks to six months as penalty for various periods of AWOL. Behind barred windows, overcrowded to such an extent that some of the inmates slept on top of wall lockers, they served their time, and other transient GIs could observe their incarcerated friends double timing to chow, sneaking in a verboten smoke (prisoners were allotted three cigarettes a day at Lichfield-one after every meal) or standing at attention, in front of the mess hall, waiting...
Andrei Gromyko, who has been penned up in the Plaza on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, got hold of a country place on the plushy north shore of Long Island.* The main diggings (in old Woodbury): a Georgian brick pile with a nice third floor for servants, a five-car garage, landscaped grounds. Neighbors: Wall Streeter Henry Rogers Winthrop and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Landlady: Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, widow of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury...