Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with notions about the U.S. (TIME, July 24). His salvos have been charged with such powder as: "[the imported planner] is hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here and fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber...
...Walter Gropius, former guiding genius of Germany's modernist Bauhaus (liquidated by Hitler), now head of Harvard's Architecture Department. Gropius "fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber." He is "hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here...
Disaster arrived in an 8,000-ton, Canadian-built Liberty ship. Swarms of dockers began unloading her cargo of scrap metal, timber, 708 bales of cotton, $4,293,500 in gold bullion, 300 tons of high explosive (TNT, amatol) in little black canisters. Fire interrupted their work...
Retreat. Frossia found a job. She typed documents about transgressors of the new economic decrees: speculators in food, currency, timber, building material, raw chemicals, leather, steel, the theft of a sockful of rough amethysts in the Urals, the theft of 500 Ib. of raw glycerine. Her superiors lectured her: "The Party aims have been well defined by Comrade Bukharin. . . ." But she could not understand them. "Imperial or Soviet, she thought, we Russians will never change." Anna von Packen said, "Working for them? How can you? . . . You will not stand aloof from them. Therefore you are helping their ghastly revolution...
...City (the sheep population almost equals the U.S. human population). From Canberra (pronounced Can-bra), near Sydney on the east coast, to Perth out west is 2,400 miles. Just the fringes of Australia are inhabited; the southeast, particularly, and a little around Perth on the west coast (big-timber country) and at Darwin up north in the tropics, then down the east coast to Brisbane where urban living starts again...