Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoover, employes of the White House and the Executive Offices received wooden ashtrays, penholders, cigaretes, jewel cases, paper cutters, etc. All were made from the 100-year-old timber taken from the White House roof when it was renewed during the Coolidge era. With each gift went a card engraved with a bit of free verse. Though unsigned, every recipient knew that Mrs. Hoover had written...
Price: $895 up. Oakland's companion, Pontiac, is longer than in 1930, stronger in roof construction. It has rubber-cushioned chassis, larger-rimmed wheels, larger brake drums, a sturdier frame. Price: $665 up. Chevrolet, Ford's chief competition, is now much smarter, has added a few accessories. But Chevrolet's price on its six-cylinder line begins at $475; $20 cheaper than its 1928 four-cylinder...
Chrysler Motors has many innovations. Chrysler cars include two new eights which have been on the market since July. These and a new six have been furnished with a European-type, V front radiator. They have automatic spark control; dual high gear (four speed) transmission, radio-wired roof and dashboard, permanent bearing & bushing lubrication by a new substance called Oilite...
...Austin Co., Cleveland construction engineers, is building the first windowless factory, designed to increase the output of manpower 33 ⅓%. The structure, one story high, consists of only one large room covering about five acres in which executives may sit undisturbed while saws are machine-made all about them. Roof (the most expensive ever put in a factory-$175,000), walls, floor will be of noise-absorbing material. To eliminate the communication of vibration, all machinery will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises...
...group of friends gave Commander Evangeline Booth $5,000 to bid up and buy in the ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...