Word: spruces
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom had Belgrade seen more bustle and toil. Wrecking crews felled whole rows of shabby old tenements as if scything corn. Gangs labored round the clock to transform gaping foundations into spruce little parks. Everywhere, the police rounded up known drunks, idlers and beggars and sent them off to the countryside for the duration of the Conference of Unaligned Nations...
...last the East German Communist regime of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be making a determined attempt to stop its refugees running out to the West. But they still keep coming. Last week People's Army patrols in camouflage uniforms stalked the spruce forests and potato fields in a twelve-mile circle around East Berlin in search of defectors; jackbooted People's Police and railway police combed all access roads, airports and railways leading to the city. But through them all the refugees poured across to the West at the rate of some 1,500 a day. West Berlin...
...present version of the play has the influence not anticipated by Brecht himself: that of Mr. Eric Bentley, the translator, or "adaptor" as the program has it. Mr. Bentley's translation of a difficult text is a fair one, and a clean one, but he has seen fit to spruce up the play by adding several songs and an opening and closing chorus-line number more reminiscent of the English than of the Bavarian music hall...
...Last year, on gross revenues of $112,149,302, the Times netted $1,652,392-a return of less than 2%. Of this skimpy profit, all but $348,051 came from Canada's Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd., in which the Times has a part interest...
...distilling to the manufacture of surgical equipment. Operating tax free, dividend free and rent free in direct competition with its own citizens, the Government loses billions each year in the businesses." Once in business, Reagan noted, the Government is reluctant to get out: "Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products Corp. in 1920, but 30 years later it was still in existence. The corporation was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane frames...