Word: parkland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shone so brightly on the lake, the pines and oaks stood so peacefully in the quiet parkland of Vught, it was hard to believe that during the war this was one of the worst of the German concentration camps...
...Earl of Fitzwilliam's secretary and his estate agent spluttered in angry despair over the "incredible, appalling despoliation." Already 450 acres of the estate surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, ancestral Fitzwilliams seat in Yorkshire, had been chewed by huge shovels scooping out subsurface coal. A farm, a woodland, a parkland had been dug up. Soon a stud farm, paddocks, fish pond, tree nursery, stately avenues and timbered slopes would also go. The place was a "complete mess...
Very rarely in the annals of American business history has an employer been penalized for raising the pay of his workers.* Last week Dallas' little Parkland Sportswear Co. was told by the regional War Labor Board that its entire payroll for Feb. 13 to April 24 ($4,532 for 47 employes) would be disallowed as an operating expense for tax purposes, because $600 of it represented raises put through without the routine, technical request for WLB's blessing...