Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Houses. In Hazleton, Pa. on the outskirts of the anthracite region, stands a neat rectangular little dwelling painted sky green and as simple as a candy box. Under its flat roof of rolled steel-&-aluminum are a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. The cellarless foundation is aero-cement; the frame, steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing...
...great hall adjacent to this place of judgment, however, that the gloomy and darkling splendour of the palace really displayed itself. Here massy pillars of stone supported the great arch of the roof, decorated in the Roman fashion which Vitruvius has taught us so well to admire. Below the glory of this reticulated ceiling, effulgent with the light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask...
...York City, a 56-mi. gale sang around the skyscrapers; knocked off the cover of a roof water tank showering a dozen women in the building's elevator; puffed out a truck's tarpaulin, overturning the truck; whisked a woman's hoarded wealth out of her petticoat pocket; blew a painter out of his saddle high up in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge; blew the S. S. Deutschland broadside against the head of a Hudson River pier; blew homebound Warren S. Coyle's automobile off the road into a stone wall in New Jersey, killing Coyle...
...will be of Colonial architecture, designed to harmonize with the surrounding buildings of the College. it will consist of a main building, parallel to Broadway, and a wing, parallel to Quincy Street. The main building will be of brick, three and one-half stories high, topped with a state roof and a belfry. The wing will be of wood and two stories in height only. The station will contain the fire apparatus for this vicinity...
After two days & nights authorities decided that the picnic had lasted long enough. Police spent two hours gently herding out the crowd. From the roof deputy sheriffs used a fire hose to quench the spirits of some 500 or 600 who tried to force their way back inside. ¶ Some 4,000 Nebraska farmers slept on the State Fair Grounds two miles out of Lincoln one night last week. Next morning they hitched up their overalls, raised their banners, marched shouting and singing to the Capitol. Half of them got into the legislative chamber, presented to a joint session...