Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Packard's president is Alvan Macauley, a courteous cultured gentleman of 62 who heads the Industry's trade association. He likes to whittle period furniture and part models in his basement workshop, likes skeet shooting, likes to read in his bath. He is also a smart salesman who learned his trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into...
...office building. President Roosevelt was beaming with happy expectation. So were the 120 members of the "gang," as Louis Howe calls the White House office force. They were delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace had got a roomy penthouse where more secretaries and clerks, including those of Mrs. Roosevelt...
...story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing...
Harvard's riflemen will start their second match of the season tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the basement of Memorial Hall, while their opponents will be shooting at similar targets some 300 miles away in another subterranean range at Princeton. The two teams will then exchange letters giving the scores for the contest, and the results of the contest will announced some time in the latter part of the week...
First of its kind that anyone knew of, the test showed the vault airtight, hence watertight. With safety-deposit boxes only six inches from the floor, the bank's officials deemed the possibility of a flooded basement real enough to be guarded against. The door was built by York Safe & Lock Co., machined by hand to such precision that a scrap of tissue paper in the frame prevents it from closing...