Word: cupolaed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from...
...anything in U. S. railroading could be considered permanent, it would be the dingy red freight caboose with its tiny cupola perched on top like the tin can or Happy Hooligan's head. Last week, however, the caboose also yielded to the progressive redesigning which is revolutionizing U. S. trains...
...caboose is where the freight train crew travels. Its cupola was created for two brakemen, one on each side, not to watch for hoboes, but to see that the long line of swaying cars functions properly. Higher cars have lately obstructed the view, forced brakemen to crane far out. Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions...
...tentative sketches of University Hall prepared in 1815 by Charles Bulfinch, the famous New England architect, and firmly rejected by the college. Bulfinch originally desired that the central building be topped with a massive gold dome; when this was turned down he was willing to compromise on a large cupola. The building, as finally constructed, had a plain roof, and is still in use today for the university offices...
...made several attempts to retire jallopies from circulation. Henry Ford offered $20 for each & every jallopy delivered at Dearborn. So great was the rush that he had to set up a demolition line functioning in reverse of an assembly line. Before a car was finally dumped into a furnace cupola it was stripped of glass, tires, battery, upholstery, top fabric, copper, brass. Serviceable equipment was sold to Ford employes, the rest used to the last scrap in the meticulous Ford economy. More than 300,000 jallopies were junked before the demolition line finally shut down...