Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time his grandson (Anheuser-Busch's current president) was born in 1899, Adolphus Busch was a legendary figure in St. Louis. At his 20-room brick mansion he lavishly entertained such guests as Sarah Bernhardt and Teddy Roosevelt; he bought homes in Pasadena, Calif. and Cooperstown, N.Y., bought himself a manor on Germany's Rhine, had himself painted by Sweden's Anders Zorn. Traveling to New York in his private car, he passed out gold coins on all sides. Adolphus Busch could afford it. When he died in 1913, he left his family an estate valued...
...CAFE, since then, Johnson has built up a force of 1,100, constructed housing, set up a sawmill, bakery, tile and brick factory, gristmill and nursery, planted 1,260,000 coffee trees. Paraguay, which cooperated with CAFE by easing laws on currency exchange, now promises to become for the first time a coffee producer, and a competitive one. Said President Stroessner, after his tour of the new plantations: "What Paraguay needs is 100 men like Señor Johnson...
...ministers: ¶To be Foreign Minister: his friend, Heinrich von Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather than the Nazi Arbeitsfront. When war came he joined the Wehrmacht as a private, finished up as a first lieutenant in an American P.W. camp. Blank makes frequent speeches about how the new army will be de-Prussianized...
Harry Lev lives with his wife of 27 years and their eleven-year-old daughter (their other two daughters are married) in a brick mansion near Lake Michigan. Mrs. Lev had her own explanation why the Senate subcommittee was more confused at week's end than it was at the beginning. Said she of her husband: "He is more ethical than the word implies . . . He is just too honest, too sincere for the people who've been questioning . . . He's a dope when it comes to English...
...worst in Blackwell since 1912, destroyed and damaged 500 houses, hurt 493 people and killed 19, caused a $10 million loss. The whirlwind ripped surfaces off the highways, wrapped a big electric refrigerator around a tree stump, tossed a wrecked pickup truck onto the second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn't look...