Word: linoleums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armstrong linoleum ("It illustrates precisely that a really good approach need never be changed but only varied. Armstrong's promise has never changed. It is what you can do in a house or a room or an attic with imagination and with Armstrong's help...
...renovation scheme encompasses "more than redecoration," Dean von Stade commented. New plumbing, heating, and wiring will be installed. Linoleum will be placed on the floors, and acoustic tile may be used for the ceilings. Bathroom facilities will also be upgraded...
...family life: "Better to have a linoleum rug so kids can bring their friends home than a Persian carpet they can't set foot on," philosophized Texas Pastor Fordyce Detamore. Each family, he said, needs a "social secretary...
Around the White House offices somber-faced staffers tiptoed across the squares of linoleum tile, whispered out their business as if some member of the official family were seriously ill. There was no laughter; tension ran higher than at any time since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack. In the spacious, green-carpeted corner office, only 30 paces from the President's own, worked Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, briskly shuffling papers, softly snapping monosyllabic orders as he had since the day that he became Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in January...
...Hospital, a University of Utah medical student noticed that the floor tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...