Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of the Edison plant in West Orange, N. J. with a message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party. Get a car. Pay a bill. Rent a flat. Fix your roof. Get a haircut. See a show. Build a house. Take a trip. Sing a song. Get married," cried the message. Edison employes were handed $5 each, told to 'spur on Recovery by buying something they would not otherwise have bought...
...fire ladder and, by means of a long pole, got a pulley and rope up to him which he hitched to the guy wire. Helper Rogers then snaked up the rope, cut the tangled rope from Bareiter's ankle, lowered him from his blowy height to the roof and safety...
UNDER ONE ROOF-Ruth Eleanor McKee-Doubleday, Doran ($2). One reasonably peaceful Thanksgiving Day in a Los Angeles family composed of parents, a neurotic librarian, a teacher with heart trouble, a grass widow, a college girl, a high-school boy, an automobile salesman...
...whole colony was seriously threatened as flaming embers were strewn in all directions by the high wind. Sparks from the Donham home ignited the roof of the neighboring residence of Harry M. Stearns of Cambridge and caused an estimated damage...
...construction of the court was decided upon several weeks ago over the opposition of House members who advocated the use of the roof as a beer garden to rival Eliot House's grill...