Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Team Plays. Roy & Jake have a big job on their hands. The Bethpage plant sprawls over 200 acres employs 21,000 workers. Its five red brick buildings turn out more combat planes than any other single plant...
...acres of floor space in the new red brick buildings, Bill Schwendler's engineers are already poring over drawing boards on new Navy projects, including plans for a revolutionary type of fighter. The Navy has piled on enough contracts to keep the staff busy for two years. The Navy does not know what kind of planes it will need in five years, nor how many it can then afford. But if the Navy can afford to keep only one plane company in business, that company will be Grumman...
...Chinese students have journeyed eastward to acquire a U.S. education. The pilgrimage has been interrupted by war, but 1,700 war-stranded students remain in the U.S. Primarily as a meeting place for them, their postwar successors, and their U.S. friends present & to come, a four-story, red brick mansion on Manhattan's East 65th Street was dedicated last week as China House. Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation to the China Institute of America, it is a memorial to the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, longtime missionary and educator in China, father of TIME'S Editor Henry...
...acre estate set like a jewel in Washington's Georgetown. The 39 delegates, none in a plug hat, strolled down the old pebble walks, through formal gardens, under Chinese scholar trees, across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...
...think you quite understand it if you live in a big steel and concrete building that would stand up to the blast. Where most Londoners live, in these miserable little brick houses which fall to dust and rubble a dozen at a time, when a bomb falls in the road it's different. But really what gets me down most is living alone-no love, no kids, no decent food...