Word: clay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friedrich acted as an advisor to the military governor of Germany, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, from...
Short Cut. On petition from the White House staff, the President approved plans for renovation of the long-abandoned White House clay tennis court, which will be maintained by surplus funds out of the White House mess. One restriction, laid down by Mamie Eisenhower: Players wearing shorts may not parade across the public lawn from the West Wing to the court, instead must use the nearby tool shed for a dressing room...
...Treasury's argument is that the allowance off taxable income (ranging from 5% for clay to 27½% for oil and gas) was originally conceived as a form of compensation to industries that extract raw materials and thus presumably "deplete" their storehouse of goods. It was meant to apply only to the raw material itself. But recent court decisions have extended the allowance to include a wide range of refined and processed products. Oilmen, for example, are able to compute the allowance on the value of petroleum products made from gas as they come from the cycling plants...
...board of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Philadelphia-born, Amherst-and Harvard-educated. Lawyer McCloy left a thriving New York practice in 1941 to become Assistant Secretary of War, served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...
Rocky Ground. For each work he spends months in research, more months in building up a mathematically scaled clay model, still more months at the easel or on the scaffold. A minute error can be heartbreaking. In a recent scale model, Benton had painted a birchbark canoe being set on the ground by a group of Indians. "People looking at it would ask right off what kind of damn fool Indians would be dragging a birchbark canoe across rocky ground. That changed the mural's entire design and set me back weeks. I had to do the model...