brickmaking
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They also paid for a brickmaking business with about 370 workers, an anti-malaria project and a series of gardens to preserve rare plants that were being destroyed by activity at the mine.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
Members of brickmaking families said school closures — scheduled to last at least until December — have led to many children and adolescents working longer hours.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2020
Johnston writes that Yarrow was known for his brickmaking, his basket-weaving and his swimming prowess in the Potomac River.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2015
She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
The brickmaking is to begin at once; we shall do something for the building of the new, fire-proof Boston.
From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
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