Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt whom he had never met. He accepted the Bull Moose vice-presidential nomination. In 1916, still Governor, he was back in the Republican fold when Charles Evans Hughes visited California under Old Guard auspices. They failed to meet, though for some time they were under the same hotel roof. Johnsonites were insulted. Hughes lost the State and the Presidency while Johnson was elected to the Senate where he has served continuously since 1917. In 1920 he missed a White House chance when he turned down the Republican vice-presidential nomination which then went to Calvin Coolidge. His political...
...system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame and smoke...
...thousand people were in the building. All but a few hundred on the two lower floors were trapped by the flames. Screaming crowds rushed to the roof where the management had installed cages of live lions, monkeys, bears and a little shrine to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy. Fortunately employes had had a weekly fire drill. There were no fire escapes in the building, but each department was provided with collapsible canvas chutes known as "lifesacks" down which people could slide to the streets. Quick-witted clerks on the fifth floor saved many lives by twisting a life-rope from...
Outside the building every fire crew in Tokyo was at work but there was not a fire ladder in the city tall enough to reach the roof. Army planes swooped overhead trying to drop ropes to the milling crowds on the roof. A battalion of troops with fixed bayonets held back hysterical crowds that blocked traffic in the heart of Tokyo for three hours. Slowly, painfully most of those trapped in the building were lowered down ropes to the street. At nightfall police checked up: 14 dead, over 100 injured, property damage estimated...
...York and Philadelphia, who wished to design a modern, functional school-building. Within a few months the Hessian Hills parents, organized as a non-profit-making corporation, had enough money to begin the first unit of the school, a long, low, glass & concrete building with a flat roof upon which some day another section can be built. The parents got to work painting it, digging ditches, doing all the odd jobs that remained. Last fortnight was dedicated the second unit of Hessian Hills' new plant, a wing containing an auditorium, music room, shower baths and locker rooms. Half...