Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth (see map), "Operation Musk-Ox" would arrive at Edmonton. The only breaks in 81 days of isolation would be the visits of R.C.A.F. supply planes bringing fuel and food...
First, there was hardly a business building in Manila that wasn't a wreck. The best the Army could assign us was a three-story warehouse whose roof had been burned away and whose floors had been gutted. (It took two months and some wonderful help from the Army to get a roof that would at least keep the rain off the presses...
...Liberty. Eduard Benes grew up in a search for freedom. He was born, the last of a family of ten children, under a peasant's roof...
...Kangaroos, blowfish and pelicans use flexible sacs. "The material rather than the shape is the critical factor . . . it must be light, strong, flexible and impervious. . . . Now in . . . aluminum and magnesium we have the means." Storage tanks have been built with flexible roofs of these metals. A slight difference between outside and inside atmospheric pressure balloons the roof...
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...