Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoke and flame bursting through the roof and windows of the second story of the Carey Cage threatened serious destruction to the Stadium at Soldiers's Field yesterday afternoon before the fire was brought under control...
Under the direction of Chief James A. Kennedy, ladders were quickly raised and holes were knocked in the windows and roof to allow water to reach the flames. Entry to the fire was made difficult by the fact that the whole of the second floor and part of the first was filled with smoke...
Rooftree. In Honolulu, the Star-Bulletin ran a want ad: "Furnished roof for rent...
...hands, found new accommodations for the building workers in Kensington. It also announced a program to house 20,000 homeless Britons in some 700 unoccupied army camps. A drive is being launched to finish before the end of the year all houses now built up to the roof level...
...gang of 250 stonesetters, carvers, riggers, glassworkers and structural iron men on the job were putting 27,000 cubic ft. of Georgia marble and 6,000 sq. ft. of Maine slate into fixing up the walls and the leaky roof. They had reinforced the wooden interior beams, which were starting to rot, replaced the stone crosses set atop the spires in 1888. A $25,000 new rose window was being fashioned in Boston. Bronze main doors will replace the "temporary" wooden ones-which have stood for 70 years...