Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the German leaders met with the three Military Governors in the ex-SHAEF war room in Frankfurt's big Headquarters Building. After six turbulent hours, General Clay emerged with a broad smile. Said he: "It's all settled." He specified: "There are no remaining differences either between Germans or ourselves or between the German political parties...
...Clay and Murphy hope that the constitution for the "Federal Republic of Germany" will go to the eleven West German states for ratification by May 15. In the face of Russian maneuvers, the Western Allies and the Western Germans at last presented a united front...
...under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...
Hard Solution. In Clay Center, Kans., citizens voted (1,026 to 677) for the sale of hard liquor, voted (1,468 to 254) against building a water-softener plant...
...National is not the biggest bank in the capital (resources: $29 million), but it is the oldest (est. 1809). Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were once depositors. In the War of 1812, the cashier cagily sneaked the bank's funds out of town the day the British captured the city. Later the bank lent the empty U.S. Treasury $50,000 to help rebuild the White House, which had been burned by the redcoats...