Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department's colossal headquarters building across the Potomac from Washington was no longer the $85,000,000 butt of jokes by capital wags. The Pentagon building was a focus of statistical bewilderment: population capacity 40,000; a telephone switchboard big enough for a city of 125,000; enough pavement for a 24-ft. roadway 49 miles long, including parking space for 8,000 cars...
Flame-red, the carnations lay upon six square feet of sidewalk of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 15th Street. Flame-red, they rested in the cars of the funeral cortege that rolled by. On pavement and auto seat, in lapels of hundreds of mourners, they symbolized the passing of Carlo Tresca. Shot down last week on a street corner near his little Italian-language newspaper office, the jovial, goateed, almost legendary radical editor presented in death the spectacle, revolting to the U.S., of political assassination...
...into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic Reporter Gene McLain had part of his shoe sole shot off. Bullets smashed windowpanes, whined off the pavement. There was a general running to cover. A private was left dead in the street; half a dozen men were wounded...
...expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat order he roped off the streets, built his boats on the pavement; to get huge Navy landing boats from New Orleans to Norfolk in time for test runs, he shipped them on flatcars, tore down and rebuilt eight railroad bridges which were too small to let his boats through...
...hard labor. In the courtyard, in the drizzle, six sheeted bodies on stretchers were loaded in the ambulances-four in one, two in the other. Steel-helmeted soldiers, with bayonets and machine guns, kept a little crowd of the curious away. The ambulances swung out slowly on the wet pavement, took the bodies to the Walter Reed Hospital for autopsy...