Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west side of the Wilhelmstrasse only one building was undamaged : Hitler's new Reich Chancellery. Next to it Hitler's residence gaped to the sky, its roof burned...
High Time. In Summerfield, Kans., pupils at the Summerfield School did their monthly fire drill, filed outdoors, took a look at the roof, promptly called the fire department...
...stockmarket, already on a liquor spree (TIME, Nov. 8), promptly went through the roof. In New York, American Distilling opened the week at 100, 25 points above last week's close and up 85 points from the year's low. In Baltimore Tom Moore hit a high of $200 v. its $27 1943 low. But before the ordinary stockholder can drink his dividends, he must pay State and Federal taxes, have the bulk liquor shipped around to bottlers, labelers, wholesalers and retailers (who are entitled to the regular 33⅓% markup...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting Freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic night-mare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure...
...Austin kids first heard New Orleans jazz when a copy of the Friars Society Orchestra "Tin Roof Blues" found its way into the juke box at the Poodle Dog, which was the local version of McBride's without the beer...