Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the building season starts for most of the U.S., both men and materials will be available on a scale ample to meet the rush. To make the gamble a good one, it has already had OPA put price increases on cast iron, soil pipe, gypsum lath and the clay industry, is now hinting broadly that, to get the labor to make these materials, wages will also have to be hiked...
...Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, the Big Three, in Olympian isolation, molded a politically inert Europe. But there was life in the kneaded clay; last week post war Europe's face began to emerge. The destiny of Europe still depended mainly on relations between the U.S. and Russia, but Europe was acquiring recognizable lineaments...
Visitors to the prisoner-of-war camp at Compiegne, France, were pleasantly surprised. Instead of standing sullenly at attention as the visitors passed, the German prisoners doffed their hats respectfully. Some were sitting in groups on the hard clay ground, placidly listening to lectures on biology, tolerance, arithmetic, democracy, religion. Others were playing football...
...100th day as U.S. President, Harry Truman emerged from the secrecy-fenced Potsdam compound of the Big Three meeting (see INTERNATIONAL). He had a ceremonial job to do in Berlin, and he evidently relished doing it. Along with War Secretary Stimson and Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton and Clay, he went to witness the raising of the official U.S. victory flag* over the headquarters of the U.S. Group Control Council...
...seventh day, the deadlock over administrative procedure was broken. To a conference hurried Russia's Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the U.S.'s Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and Britain's Lieut. General Sir Ronald M. Weeks. An official statement said "useful decisions [were] reached in an atmosphere of complete and mutual understanding." Correspondents passed the word along that Marshal Zhukov, hitherto inhibited by the presence of the Kremlin's strong-arm troubleshooter, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, had received more discretionary authority and was using it to speed up cooperation. Soon it was announced that...