Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steam boiler in the Renault motor works near Paris exploded, caving in the roof of one of the buildings, injuring 150 people, killing eight...
Along the highway rolls a grotesque vehicle like an automobile designer's bad dream. It looks like a coupe but has only three wheels, one centred in front. Its tail sticks out in a long bustle. The roof line of the coupe extends upward and rearward in curves like the back and neckline of a rearing seal. The "seal's" nose is the axis of a large propeller, shielded by a mesh guard...
...excited Japanese strikers and sochi ("hired thugs")* arrived with the cordwood. Slamming the door in their faces, Singer Assistant Manager Gilbert Parsons shot the bolt, raised an alarm and led the few Singer office workers who had not gone out to lunch up four flights of stairs to the roof...
...Biggest bank under one roof"), biggest bank west of Manhattan. Last spring he succeeded his younger brother Arthur Reynolds, who retired ostensibly because of poor health, insisting: "The dampness of the climate here affects my ears" (TIME, May 16). Chicagoans had long heard reports of discord between the Brothers Reynolds and their directors, felt sure that it was only a matter of time before Brother George would follow the footsteps of Brother Arthur. Last week on learning that his wife had become ill suddenly, Brother George boomed: "That settles it. I'm through...
...cavernous armory in Manhattan, two days last week, a hundred-odd boys of high-school age moved quietly about the floor, some carrying tiny, fragile model airplanes, others standing with heads thrown back, gaping anxiously at the roof. Up under the lofty girders, slowly and silently circled little gossamer shapes. At intervals an announcer boomed a number through a megaphone. The only other noise in the hall was an incessant metallic undertone like the sound of a score of egg-beaters. This came from a number of gadgets not unlike egg-beaters in the hands of some of the boys...