Word: roofing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Willingness of towns outside of the London area to care for those who have been dispossessed is an indication of a morale and quiet determination "that is almost unbelievable," Fulton remarked. Almost every family in rural England, he pointed out, has at least three or four evacuees under its roof...
Building a ship is like building a house, where putting up the walls must wait laying the foundation and the roof must wait on the walls. When one job is finished, expert workmen are laid off until the same job comes along on another ship. With shipyards booming along both coasts and the Gulf, laid-off workmen (about 8,000 a month out of 160,000 now employed in the industry) have been loath to wait, frequently have moved to other yards. The purpose of the Washington conference was to stop delays...
...Ritz Bar, the Statler, the Lafayette, the Sheraton, the Ritz Roof, and the Beachcomber were favorite dance and drink spots around the town. The Silver Dollar Bar drew a poor last in popularity...
...Though the building department dislikes its thin walls and invisible heating, it will be the first church in the U. S. to be fully air-conditioned, summer & winter. Instead of a steeple it will have pillars of light-formed by interweaving floodlights from a copper crown on the roof...
...drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests were too polite to say anything, or perhaps they just took smells for granted in the house of a professor of pharmacology. . . . Do you think the experts would consider putting thin slabs of charcoal . . . along the roof of the tube (and other) shelters...