Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Main features to break the monotony are glass corridors and a three-story, sheet-glass grand entrance for protocol occasions. The roof will be reinforced for helicopter landing; the basement will house an 800-car garage. Inside, the building freezes the State Department's pyramidal hierarchy in concrete, with the Secretary's office, surrounded by his immediate aides on the seventh floor, lesser departments pushed lower and lower toward the first. Windows are rationed on prestige basis. To pump around the lifeblood of memorandums there are miles of pneumatic tubing...
Getting together efficiently under one roof will save the State Department more than $2,000,000 a year. But the new building points up the question of how many more blocks of drab modern Washington can take before one of the most beautiful U.S. cities becomes a barracks city of monumental dullness...
...bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole street looked like day. There was a terrible explosion, and the front part of the roof started to cave in. The boy and I ran to the chimney at the back of the roof. Russians on top of the roof across the street from us?I hadn't even seen them?started shooting. I said to myself. 'This is death' and felt pretty calm." Ferenc...
...have still had to divide their pupils into four groups, according to ability, and to give each group a different curriculum. "The result," said the committee, "is a new form of segregation: instead of having a segregated school system, they now have segregation in different classrooms under the same roof...
...down 200,000 in a year, builders loudly blamed the money pinch. But there were dissenting voices. They argued that another reason for the slide was that the industry had failed to meet the increasing demand for better houses, that the day of the roof-at-any-price was gone, and that in the future the builder would have to entice buyers with better models just as auto and appliance makers...