Word: hutment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the motorcade of vets went to the empty C.W.A.C. hutment at Lansdowne Park, settled another nine families. Thirty city police, standing by, did not interfere. When acting Mayor Dr. G. M. Geldert chided the vets for the invasion when housing units were being readied for them at Rockcliffe airport, they shouted him down: "Nuts to that stuff...
...admiration of the spectators, reporters and photographers, the G.I.s did even better as builders. Assigned by General Eisenhower fortnight ago to help bombed-out Londoners through their housing crisis, they had their first temporary hutment erected by last week. Equipped with plenty of concrete mixers, they laid seven foundations while a British civilian crew on an adjoining lot laid...
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