Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver had also let 23 old trucks rust and disintegrate on the roof of an ample garage, had refused to sell them because the money would revert to the general U.S. treasury fund and thus be lost to the bureau. Meanwhile it had purchased 55 new trucks of similar type without trading in the old trucks...
...Relatively new when the Wilbur committee recommended it, group practice helps doctors to give better medical care by bringing several specialists under one roof (cutting their over head for rent, office help, expensive equipment and laboratory technicians), and helps the patient by giving him automatic access to the group's specialists...
...what raised the roof was K-F's new, still unnamed low-priced car. It is a five-passenger two-door sedan which President Edgar Kaiser hopes to sell at around $1.175 f.o.b. Willow Run-$250 cheaper than the more luxurious two-door Ford or Chevrolet. At the sight of it, Midwest dealers swarmed across the stand, lifted the 2,400-lb. car waist-high and carried it around the room...
...trite to say "the roof fell in," but in the middle of the second period yesterday afternoon at the Arena, it did. And the freshman hockey team, riding on a winning streak of five straight, flunked the Boston College freshman test...
...lawns and trees bearded with Spanish moss. There is the 15,000-acre ranch on which he admires his blooded cattle and occasionally shoots deer, goats and turkeys. There is McCarthy's Colosadium (so far, only on paper), a 110,000-seat stadium for Houston with a sliding roof in case of rain. There are McCarthy's airplanes, which include a four-engined Boeing Stratoliner...