Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon next day the President sat back in the deep cushions of the big closed car, adjusted his big dark Navy cape. The gravel spattered from the driveway, the car moved off slowly around the south lawn, and up the long clear stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue toward the looming dome of the Capitol. On each running board perched a Secret Service man. His car was flanked on both sides by open Secret Service cars, three men on each running board, four men inside. The men in the tonneaus held sawed-off riot guns. Those outside carried .38-caliber service revolvers...
Though nearly $20,000,000 has been spent since its cornerstone was laid in 1892, St. John's is still far from finished. Some $10,000,000 must still be raised for the transepts, crossing dome (which will soar 241 ft. from floor to lantern), central and west towers. Not until then will the original Romanesque plan of the cathedral, changed to Gothic in 1911 by Ralph Adams Cram, be completely hidden. But for a cathedral 49-year-old St. John's has made rapid progress-most of it since Bishop William Thomas Manning assumed office...
...above their "out-of-pocket" mine costs, about 15? or 16? (depending on the producer). The U.S. will still release the copper to fabricators at 12?, absorb the difference. Similar offers will doubtless soon be made to other high-cost mines (like Miami Copper's low-grade Castle Dome property in Arizona). But the Government doesn't think that any price in the firmament can pry loose much more than 75,000-100,000 tons of additional U.S. copper...
...departure of the full-bellied Wellingtons is a high point of suspense. The Wing Commander stands in a trailer hauled onto the flying field. From its roof projects a small glass dome. The Wing, equipped with headphones and mouthpiece, peers through the glass, dispatching his squadron: "Hello, C for Charlie [name of the plane ]. You may taxi up and take off." C for Charlie trundles with a roar into the night. Then: "Hello, control. C for Charlie airborne 19:35 [7:35 p.m.]." On the raid, camera and sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew...
Hardships endured by midnight watches in the smaller dome belonging to the six-inch refractor were experienced by those who had to squat down on the floor in the cold night air to see Mars. A College Junior amplified the spectacle by recalling his recent observations of the receding Martian...