Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because liquid hydrogen is dangerously explosive, the cryogenics room is explosion-proof and equipped with a fast ventilating system. The roof off the experimental hall is also designed for rapid ventilation to minimize the hazards of spilled hydrogen...
...with his own special brand of eloquence: "Life, even cellular life, may exist out yonder in the dark. But high or low in nature, it will not wear the shape of man. That shape is the evolutionary product of a strange, long wandering through the attics of the forest roof, and so great are the chances of failure, that nothing precisely and identically human is likely ever to come that way again. There may be wisdom; there may be power; somewhere across space great instruments, handled by strange, manipulative organs, may stare vainly at our floating cloud wrack, their owners...
...rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine helicopters; through its cellarage rumble some 400 trains daily; and in between, 63 elevators will carry some 25,000 office staffers and executives up and down...
High-Priced Sport. Buick's boss is not the only one with such hopes. For 1963 Oldsmobile has decked out its top model, the Starfire, with a sculptured T-bird-type roof to give it a sporty look. Pontiac's Grand Prix has undergone the same treatment. Not to be left out, Chrysler is readying its new 300}, a revved-up version of the Chrysler New Yorker...
...Studebaker's Larks and Hawks have undergone only minor feather trimming. The only really new model is a Lark station wagon, the Wagonaire, which has a sliding metal roof that telescopes forward to expose the rear seats...