Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were extraordinary doings on the third floor of Washington's Willard Hotel one day last week. A score of photographers squatted in the corridor with lenses trained on the elevator. Newsreel men fidgeted with their cameras. Reporters milled around in the glare of light reflectors. Suddenly the door opened, an elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands...
...back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except the toilet and seats either hangs on, or disappears into the walls, most of the 5 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 7 in. floor area is left clear by day. At night, sitting on the bed the occupant has11 in. in which to swing his feet, but a roomette's real advantage is that morning or night the passenger can dress, undress and wash with the bed shoved...
...seven weeks, North German Lloyd officials figured the work could be done cheaper. On the sun deck $100,000 is being spent to provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole top deck between bridge and forward funnel, will become a "Beach Club" 150 ft. by 50 ft., with railside refreshment tables under gay umbrellas, surrounding pool and dance floor...
Fearful lest it should leave behind in its dilapidated quarters some of its impeccable character, the Times pondered long before moving, chose a site little farther away than its staid Editor Geoffrey Dawson could throw a handful of type. Its new six-floor 18th-Century style building did not startle the antiquated Blackfriars neighborhood, for the fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored...
Moving into temporary two-room quarters on the 22nd floor of the Empire State Building, New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...