Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valley would feed upward to the houses above. And every Deadwood youngster knew that the gulch was a natural chimney when forest fires swept through the adjacent piny hills. A fire starting in a bakery charred Deadwood in 1879. The town was rebuilt with a water barrel on every roof, survived three big fires in 1951-52. Last week, for 24 hours, Deadwood (pop. 4,000) broiled under the windswept fingers of a forest fire that threatened to cook it once...
...secret: a series of steel-and-plastic "tree units," which look like beach umbrellas with canopies curving upward instead of down. Bolted together, they form ceilings and roof; supporting pipe columns carry the load. By simply adding or subtracting tree units, the school can be expanded as the community's needs change -or moved to a new site...
Studebaker-Packard Corp. raised the roof last week: to weather the hot competition coming from the Big Three's compact cars, Studebaker rolled out a Lark that is the only convertible among the 1960 U.S. compact cars, and the smallest (wheelbase: 108½ in.) and lowest-priced (factory list: $2,176, plus extras, taxes, transport) of all the U.S. soft-top models. Studebaker also added a four-door, eight-passenger Lark station wagon that will list for $2,175, not counting taxes and transport. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill forecast that Studebaker's market will wing...
...Theatre itself is circular; and its pioneering design includes a titled, inflated, lens-shaped nylon roof 145 feet in diameter. With a maximum seating capacity of about 1800, the Theatre has a stage flexible enough to accommodate either proscenium or three-quarters-arena productions...
...major remaining problem for the new Theatre is its acoustics. During the summer several amplification arrangements were tried; the one used for Much Ado, the sole proscenium production, turned out to be the best. But the acoustics are still not wholly satisfactory; perhaps the solution demands a concave roof and solid, airtight walls...