Word: gambrels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maine's Aroostook County, dotted with neat white farmhouses and big gambrel-roofed barns, is the most northeasterly county in the U.S. Its richest farmers have become rural capitalists, with offices in town, four-hole Buicks in the garage, sons at Harvard, and winters in Florida. It was all thanks to potatoes-and, in recent years, to the wild generosity of the U.S. Government...
...Massachusetts Avenue opposite Dunster Street stands a buff colored gambrel roofed structure known as Wadsworth House. A modest and unobtrusive exterior--obscures the fact that it was once the social and cultural center of Cambridge...
...junction of two country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...