Word: flooring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ninety-Four Pages. Last week, with Monnet still presiding over the blueprint, the six nations' experts whipped the historic document into shape at their Paris headquarters in the Rue Martignac behind the Chamber of Deputies. The building was as busy as a beehive. At the ground floor entrance, motorcycle cops were ready to rush urgent messages all over Paris. Upstairs, in his large, sober office, Monnet was in almost permanent conference with the delegation chiefs. Argument and counterargument had been sifted down into 94 blue-bound pages of agreement. Highlights...
They went back to the van. Before resuming the journey they made a routine inspection of the small compartment in which their prisoners were supposedly locked. In the floor they found a small, carefully sawed hole through which René the Stick (and his friend) had once more slipped to freedom. Remembering that promise about Christmas, the gendarmes rushed to René's apartment and arrested his wife Marinette...
...weeks passed, the council men persuaded the boys to organize basketball games, hikes and picnics. The Knights were amazed to find they could share the same gym floor with the Redskins and still not have a "rumble." The JayBees were just as amazed to find that they could go on a camping trip with members of the Knights ("I had a crazy time, man-nice guys"). The Gay Blades even helped the police to distribute Christmas baskets...
With the FCC's decision, jubilant CBS hoped that the color war was over and that profits could be reaped. Sponsors were eager to underwrite color programs; more than 50,000 requests for tickets to the first week of demonstrations had poured in. On the executive 20th floor of CBS's Manhattan office building there were happy visions of $50 million or so in royalties as CBS-licensed color sets streamed from the nation's assembly lines...
Full Circuit. In Washington, D.C., an electric iron burned through the ironing board, started a fire, fell to the floor, melted a lead water pipe which put out the fire...