Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blast that lifted Heuszler and threw him against a wall last week destroyed 18 buildings in the 8-sq. mile factory of Germany's biggest chemical works, the I.G. Farben plant at Ludwigshafen in the French Zone, producers of nitrogen fertilizer, varnishes and dyes. At least 180 were killed, 2,500 injured, and 70 were still missing this week...
...mural, on a concave wall in the school's open-air theater, covered a thousand square feet. Standing on the stage in front of it and flailing his arms like an orchestra conductor, Orozco "painted" by means of shouted instructions to half a dozen agile young artists in bosun's chairs. At last, one morning, he spread his arms wide; the mural was finished and the perspiring painters were free to come down and look at what Orozco had done...
...blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into the concrete wall, and added strips of bronze and stainless steel to accent his lines...
...Alien Property confiscated the German-owned American Bosch Corp. Once, after World War I, the Germans slyly got it back. Lask week the Government sold the company again, but this time it made sure that no alien would ever again control Bosch. The buyer was Allen & Co., an aggressive Wall Street investment banking house with the reputation of holding on to what it gets...
Snap Judgments. The head and principal builder is dapper, soft-spoken Charles Allen Jr. (45), who has learned the tricks of his trade during 30 years in Wall Street. Born in New York, the third of seven children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street...