Word: pylon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
Suddenly one of the crew shouted something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...
...whole shebang cost the studios $65,000. Metro's top art men, Cedric Gibbons and Jack Smith, personally did the $10,000 "set" stage: a pylon, backed by six Greek columns, and topped with a 5-ft. gilt plaster replica of Oscar. As the evening slunk by, this gaudy setting was filled with some rare gems...