Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Consumers' Aid report, Snell, who operates independently although under the roof of the Gulf Super-service Station on Boylston Street, failed adequately to repair, and even in some particulars further damaged, the car which Miss "Not-Mechanically-minded" brought to his shop when she heard a peculiar noise emitting from under the hood...
Navy Commandant Jules Fontaine, chief of Admiral Darlan's secretariat, happened to be in Paris. From the roof of a five-story apartment building in nearby Auteuil, Commandant Fontaine saw a sight he had never thought to seethe night sky reddened by a score of great fires in the Renault plant. Scuttling back to Vichy the next day, he described the roar and crackle of flames, the screams of people trapped in the debris, and said that the ruins were still smoking when he left. The raiders sent some 200 planes in all, Commandant Fontaine estimated, and they dropped...
...whole decade of the '30s. This year 20% of all new houses may be prefabs-against less than 1% in the 1930-40 period, 3½% last year. Close to 100 factories, from Revere, Mass, to Fresno, Calif.", are now busy turning out floor, wall and roof panels on their assembly lines. At Norfolk, Va. a single plant will turn out 5,000 houses at an expected rate...
...Ambassador and Mrs. Winant took a modest four-room flat in London, stood on the roof watching the brutal bombing attacks of 1941's spring. Often he walked all night through the streets when bombers were overhead, talking to the people...
...people in Changteh in Hunan Province ran for cover as a Japanese plane skimmed over their roof tops. The plane circled for an hour. It dropped no bombs. But on the ground near the two main gates to the city, scattered grains of rice and shreds of cotton cloth were later found. The police destroyed them, but saved some samples for testing. The samples were full of Pasteurella pestis, the short oval bacillus of bubonic plague...