Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Community Bricks. In the center of Berlin, within a circle about five miles across, the destruction is what the army calls complete. Here the buildings are only shells or piles of brick and mortar dust. Yet even here it is only the buildings that are destroyed-not the materials of the buildings. Much of the brick and stone, including the marble walls of the Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees...
...Mother Hubbard. OPA magnanimously dropped rationing of about 6,000 new 1942 cars still in the nation's stock pile, scarcely enough to meet one day's prewar demand. Many dealers, to avoid argument, simply went right on selling cars only to holders of top priorities. OPA also announced that, when the new cars roll off production lines, they will be rationed at first to the same eight classes of essential drivers who previously got stockpile cars...
...pulled out a watch he had brought home for his father, a palm-sized pistol he had taken from the Mayor of Mannheim, a .38 automatic* he had taken from a German, a flashlight he had picked up. in Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden and a pile of dirty clothes, which he dumped in a corner...
...stolen in Manila, and bamboo-hooded carabao carts, snatched from Igorot farmers. Wrote TIME Correspondent William Gray: "When I saw the area two days later, burned roadside huts were still smoking, the air was ripe with the stench of dead men and animals and souring spilled rice. A scattered pile...
Even the effect of weather on the nation's victory gardens, whose tiny crops collectively add much to the U.S. food pile, may be serious. Many such gardens have been damaged by rain and late frost. Should the backyard farmers fail to replant and secure good crops, there will be a heavy additional drain on commercial food sources...