Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army sent piercing thrusts into the outer districts, tightening the pressure all around. Suddenly the Russians were everywhere in the ring of industrial districts and workers' suburbs to the north and east. The first deep piercings were among the wreckage of the rows of dark, ugly brick and stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism and Communism. Now there were SS troopers and Nazi youth fighting from flaming block...
...last week Le Bosquel was rising from its ruin. The Ministry of Reconstruction had chosen it to be a model for the rebuilding of France's shattered villages. Famed Architect Le Corbusier had planned its new form : a brick church and schoolhouse, a mairie fashioned from local clay, a paved square with a pond, homes and farms set in a concentric pattern that did away with the clumsy, age-old system of scattered land holdings. Now a bustling team of 70 blue-uniformed boys, recruited by the Ministry of Labor from bombed-out Picardy families, were clearing debris...
...Corbusier is drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...throw bridge after bridge across the smooth, fast-flowing waters. On the other side, as the mist lifts, you pass through the familiar phenomena of big captured towns in Germany: mile after mile of smashed industrial sections, of ruined homes, of buildings broken, and broken over & over again into brick dust. Then suddenly you are past the last stretch of rusted junk that used to be a railroad yard, and you begin winding over the superb wide roads that sweep into the German uplands beyond the Rhine...
...tougher. The Germans bat tled the First Army from buildings, tow ers, tunnels, vaults. They fought viciously until their plight was hopeless, then sur rendered mildly. They were found hiding in brick kilns and under beds. One group, chased out of an electric plant, ran to an apartment house next door and resumed the battle there. Four Germans were captured in a pillbox on the sixth floor of a paper mill...