Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenn., which separates Uranium 235 from natural uranium, is still going strong as in wartime. In fact, it is going stronger. The process has been improved so much that the plant's executives smile smugly about it. A new building, added to the three old ones, has a roof area as big as 16 football fields. Production, is being expanded still more at a cost of $200 million...
...been a German Evangelical pastor for more than 40 years, nor because he is 70 years old, though ordinations of septuagenarians to the priesthood are relatively rare. What caused all the flurry was that the Pope had granted Goethe a special dispensation to continue living under the same roof with his wife...
...liberality of the late Ward Nicholas Boylston," it was the first University building used entirely for science. The two-story structure housed the Anatomical Museum and library, a lecture hall, and chemical laboratories. But Chemistry Departments inmates clammored for more space and in 1871, the University raised Boylston's roof to construct a third floor for more laboratories. When growing pains produced a glass-roofed extension of the basement, students referred to the addition as the "Crystal Palace...
...first bus went off the trolley when it tried to go around a double-parked truck. Its trolley pole flew up and broke the rope connecting it with the back of the bus. While a policeman climbed to the roof of the bus to pull down the pole, two more busses tried to pass, broke loose, and stopped...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers chirped out this call to American women. It was the 56th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. The presence of Ginger Rogers, addressing a room jam-packed with delegates' wives (and a few furtive men), wasn't the only new thing about this year's N.A.M. convention. Also present were 296 top industrialists brought by ECA from 18 foreign countries...