Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days after their walkout at Philadelphia, the rebellious Southerners met in Birmingham's red brick municipal auditorium. There they snake-danced under a portrait of Robert E. Lee, flourished Confederate battle flags, and shouted their defiance of Harry Truman and the rest of the Democratic Party...
Ever since 1944, when a former Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
...late next fall, when the hammers are stilled and the plaster dust settled, Manhattan's sedate Times will be settled in one of the fanciest quarters in the business. An air-conditioned building with pastel walls, glass-brick partitions and functional furniture, it has cozy bedroom suites for executives, playrooms and dining rooms for all 3,300 staffers and a city room so vast that the city editor has to use a microphone to page his far-flung reporters...
...Manhattan's East Side one day last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in a billowing cloud of pink dust. The building under demolition was one of the last five remaining on the site of U.N.'s future headquarters...
...this bewildering city of ruins and lilacs, Buicks and rubble-trains, prostitutes and patriots, eye and mind struggle to summon order and sense from disorder and madness; they seek for symbols. The great statue of Frederick the Great, still boxed in brick against bombs that have not fallen for three years-is this the city's sly hint of new German militarism waiting another chance? The great Soviet tank on the Potsdamer Chaussee, mounted on concrete-does it mean something that it faces out from the city, pointed westward? The American signs-are they unintentionally pointed in announcing: "Think...