Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early one morning last week fire engines clanged down Pennsylvania Avenue to the new $10,000,000 Post Office Building. In a huge windowless room on the sixth floor of the building a fire had started among old files. Unable to attack it properly through the one door of the room, firemen chopped holes through the eight-inch concrete ceiling, poured in water which cascaded down to the lower floors, ruined the paneling in Postmaster General Farley's swank reception room. Washington firefighters, some 40 of whom were overcome by smoke, were bitter because they have...
...Government was back in the Supreme Court this week to defend AAA in the second of its two cases. First of the AAA cases was the suit of Hoosac Mills to be excused from paying processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. The hearing, which began week before (TIME, Dec. 16), concluded last week when onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, after arguing that processing taxes were "robbing Peter the processor to pay Paul the producer," dropped his voice and declared...
...Charles II who worked her way into the Drury Lane Theatre group by gelling oranges, and David Garrick, a member of Dr. Johnson's group and renowned for his Shakespeare characterizations, are only two of the portraits on view in the Widener Theatrical Collection located on the top floor of Widener...
...Freshman game against Milton, the same group will take the floor for the Crimson that defeated the Boston University Freshman last week. Tread Ruml has been moved back to center again, Rabenold and Grandahl are the starting forwards, and McLeod and Lupien will hold down the guard posts. In addition to his first team, Coach Adolph Samborski is taking along ton reserves. If Milton proves a weak opponent, he hopes to get a chance to try those...
...antitoxins and tobacco. Dr. Pease, who got the New York subways to ban smoking in 1909, always tells of a horse he knew who got tea mixed in its feed and jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed on, in agony. . . . My adopted daughter [attractive Mrs. Audrey Ulric Pease Fiedler] often converses with...