Clay was from Marietta, Georgia (near Atlanta), which named one of its major streets "Clay Street" in honor of his work in creating what is now Dobbins Air Force Base there. While now called South Marietta Parkway (Georgia State Highway 120 Loop), it still carries memorial signs at each end dedicating the highway to him.
Clay is considered the "father" of the Berlin Airlift (1948-49).
Clay was born in Marietta, Georgia, the sixth and last child of Alexander Stephens Clay, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1897 to 1910, and a direct descendant of the statesman Henry Clay.
LuciusClay graduated from West Point in 1918 and held various civil and military engineering posts during the 1920s and 1930s, including teaching at West Point, directing the construction of dams and civilian airports, and by 1942 rising to the position of the youngest brigadier general in the Army.
Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.
Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill.
Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. Fire clay, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick.
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