Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...Eisenach in mid-Germany, slogged the weary in fantrymen of Major General Herbert L. Earnest's 90th Division. Their job last week was the usual one of follow-through after Lieut. General George S. Patton's advanced tank forces: unsnarling knots of resistance, sorting out prisoners and slave laborers. Of the latter there were many for Merkers' big salt mines...
...Slaves & Skeletons. Other rescues-the liberation of "dispossessed persons" (officialese for slave laborers and foreign workers overtaken by the advancing Allies)-became a problem. Ignoring Allied commands to stay put, thousands upon thousands of the emaciated, verminous, happy, resigned workers began the long walk back to freedom...
Here & there and always you meet streams of the newly liberated. Down the road they come singly, in couples, in dozens, and then in great clusters of 50 and 100. These are the slave laborers of the Germans, people responsible for the carefully cultivated beauty of the German farmlands. They are so happy it makes you happy. They crowd around you and shake hands and try to kiss you, ten of them at a time. Here are Russians, scores and scores of them, with the SV for Soviet Union daubed on their backs. There are many Russian women, strong...
...librarian of the State Department from 1888 to 1892. A bachelor, he joined Washington's old, exclusive Metropolitan Club in 1891. A pleasant but solemn man, he was known to fellow members as a "very retiring and quiet sort." Historians respect his excellent studies of the South (Slave-Trading in the Old South, The Negro in Politics...