Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin of Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...
...afternoon Schmeller, energy bristling on him like quills on a porcupine, had lined up new office space. On Wednesday he had a crew salvaging machinery, clearing rubble. Thursday he conferred with local building unions; Friday 300 men were building a new roof on the roofable part of the plant...
...take them to Corinth on their way to Athens and, they hoped, a telegraph office. By this time the Germans held the other side of the Gulf and Nazi planes had only a short hop to strafe the railroad on the other side. Their train, barnacled with soldiers on roof and sides, was raked again & again with machine-gun bullets. Three out of four of the reporters who were riding together were wounded, one seriously. St. John says he did not know that he had been shot through the thigh until he finally reached Corinth by bumming a ride...
...distributing White House roses among her colleagues' desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not get enough recreation, she got hold of a portable phonograph, at lunch hours led 40 or 50 workers up to the roof to dance Virginia Reels. "Her intentions," said one admirer, "were swell." The First Lady typified the earnestness and confusion with which U.S. women have stampeded to defense work since Dec. 7. By last week hundreds of thousands of them were madly sewing, knitting, cooking, dancing, driving automobiles, thundering in airplanes, jumping...
Calm through all the clamor, aloof to cracks from the A.W.V.S., noncommittal on the subject of Mrs. Roosevelt reeling on a roof, was the American Red Cross. Since war's beginning, some 2,500,000 women had signed up for its 14 definite, well-established volunteer programs. Many of its executives were men, but head of the Volunteer Special Services was small, white-haired Mrs. Dwight F. Davis (wife of the onetime Secretary of War). Its hard-working ranks were filled for the most part by women...