Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electric fans and extra heat had helped the Union's plaster to dry well, so that damage was not so great as it might have been. In particular the high, fancy ceiling of the main dining room remained perfectly intact. But repairs to roof timbers, upstairs walls, and furnishings will still bring the cost of the fire up to $15,000, according to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
...were at work putting temporary planking over the place where the roof had been cut away. Permanent repairs of the two burned-out roof timbers, the planks and slate of the roof itself, and the metal flashing will begin on Monday, Roberts said. Workmen will also begin re-plastering walls at the time, but will have to wait until the present plaster dries thoroughly before doing any painting, he added...
...having burned only some outside molding and roof beams at the southwest corner of the building. To get at the smoldering blaze, however, firemen had had to tear away walls, rip through ceilings, and shoot high-pressure water throughout the whole leaky structure. The result was extensive damage to plaster and furnishings on the upper floors and in the western half of the main dining room...
...cost of such damage was still uncertain late yesterday, according to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Roberts explained that if the wall and ceiling plaster dries well ever the night it will need comparatively few repairs. On the other hand, he said, the whole dining hall ceiling might fall in, necessitating a very expensive restoration...
Composer Roy Harris lay, right leg from hip to toe in plaster, in a Pittsburgh hospital after an automobile accident, but his spirit was with Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra as they rehearsed for their first performance of his Seventh Symphony. On the podium Ormandy read Harris' letter explaining how to play the music. Excerpts...