Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow-white marshmallow igloo -there a toothsome pink nougat in the Florentine manner, rich and delicious with embedded nuts. Yonder rears a clean pocket-size replica of heraldic Warwick Castle-yonder drowses a nausey old nance. . . . And there a hot little hacienda, a regular enchilada conqueso with a roof made of rich red tomato sauce, barely lifts her long-lashed lavender shades on the soul of old Spanish days...
...great day so far as the weather was concerned. The night before, Washington had had its worst blizzard since Jan. 28, 1922, when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater fell in. It was not a great day for pomp and circumstance. No crowds, no band, only Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and heads of the Army, Navy and Marines, were at Union Station to greet the visitor from Mexico...
Conductor Stokowski knew from experiments in Paramount's and Walt Disney's studios what scientific design could do for acoustics. He went into huddles with NBC Chief Engineer O. B. Hanson. Early in February, NBC's big studio was closed off. Workmen built a slanting roof over the stage, faced the back wall with a marcelled pattern of half columns (technical name: convex diffusers), turned the side walls into a checkerboard of curved sections-all done to encourage resonance...
Most storekeepers feel that all this is good business. Some of the things they bought (e.g., radios and refrigerators) are already dead ducks. Even if inventories are roof-top high, they expect to sell out long before any post-war slump catches them. But not all retailers are so cocky: giant Montgomery Ward has cautiously set up a $2,000,000 reserve for "price declines." And from visiting British Storeman Victor Coen came another caution note: "Those British retailers who made heavy advance purchases . . . were sadly disappointed...
Model "X." Any lingering America-Firstism in Henry Ford's soul was bombed away at Pearl Harbor. Like any good Midwesterner, Henry Ford hit the roof when the U.S. was attacked. He called in his executives and said (weeks before the new War Production Board ordered auto production stopped): "We might as well quit making cars now." The same week he piled some of his aides into an automobile, made a tour of the whole Dearborn empire. At each building he discussed what was made there, at each building ordered: "Get a defense job going in there quick...