Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help remedy that paralysis, the U.S. last week issued a new directive to Germany's occupation chief, General Lucius D. Clay, superseding Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (which had directed the U.S. commander to take "no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany . . ."). The new directive said: "An orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany." The U.S. suggested that the permissible level of industry in Western Germany be raised by boosting steel production from 5.8 to 12 million tons a year...
...will make Nazis out of people who never were Nazis before," snarled Henrietta von Schirach, when the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins visited the camp last week. "Please tell your General Clay I hope he will not treat me in such a fashion that my children will grow up to hate America." Luise Funk, a witch-eyed redhead, echoed this threat of future hatred: "The things happening now to the German people are a humiliation they will never forget." That plump valkyrie, former Actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, had a specific grievance. Recently...
...gave a big business lunch last week. The lunch was alfresco, at his onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
Laura (by Vera Caspary & George Sklar; produced by H. Clay Blaney in association with S. P. & Roy P. Steckler), like Rebecca, flouted tradition by backing into Broadway from Hollywood. Like Rebecca's, its Broadway sojourn is apt to be brief. The main trouble is that people may not care to see on the stage what they've already seen on the screen, done much better and at a quarter the price...
Married. William Clay Ford, 22, and Martha Firestone, 21, grandchildren of the late great cronies Motormaker Henry Ford and Tiremaker Harvey Firestone; in Akron...