Word: pane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Domes & Nooks. Coaches, diners and "tavern cars" will be equipped with the General Motors designed "Vista Dome" (TIME, June 18)-a glass-enclosed elevated dome that protrudes 18 inches above the car roof. Under the unbreakable, heat-resisting Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers will have an unobstructed view of the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft lounge seats. For Dome dining under the stars dumbwaiters will lift meals from the kitchen below. After dinner, tables on the lower floor of the diners can be dropped into slots, the space cleared for dancing...
Toward the western suburbs, where the upper and middle classes live and where the Americans and British now rule, the damage diminishes. For blocks there is nothing more unsightly than a cardboard window pane, and the gardens are pretty and well tended. In the American sector of Zehlendorf a survey of the damage has been tabulated, and it is probably typical of the western part of the city. Eight percent of the buildings are untouched, 35% damaged, 49% in various degrees of destruction short of complete, 8% completely destroyed...
Antwerp was taken from the Germans virtually intact. But now almost half the city's buildings have vanished in rubble and dust. Most of those that still stand are askew on their foundations, with walls leaning and cracked. In all the city there is not a window pane left; boards cover the gaping apertures of buildings where people still live and work...
...cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful president, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
...develop bird-proof windshields for airplanes, Westinghouse shoots previously electrocuted poultry from a 20-ft. air gun at a pane of testing glass...