Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon hour last week two slim, trim, pretty girls, with yellow hair and peach-&-cream skin, met in the cafeteria on the roof of Washington's new Social Security Building, lunched together for the first time...
...Roscoe Pound, former dean of the Law School, long refused to allow the Law School roof to be repaired because he needed the money for investigations in criminal law. When it rained, he put buckets around in the library to catch leaks and protect books. The dean also steadfastly held out against buying paper towels until it was demonstrated to him that the extra toilet paper students used for hand-drying cost more than towels...
...bursting auto workers' union, at the end of a blustery, roof-raising convention in Buffalo, last week pledged to Philip Murray support for reelection as president of C.I.O. Thus were chilled any hopes that John L. Lewis had nursed of wading in and regaining control of C.I.O. with the aid of the auto workers. Meanwhile Right-wingers, led by redheaded Walter Reuther won voting control of the auto union's executive board, and the delegates, who represented over half a million workers in or on the fringe of the defense program, backed the Administration's foreign policy...
...storied houses the architects have made the upper walls almost solidly of glass. All have horizontal slats extending from the roof, shrewdly angled to let in the sun in Janary but exclude it in July...
Growled one protestant: "Imagine, a building with 35 acres of roof and they say it won't spoil the view. Hell, you could put a line of garbage pails in front of a house and it wouldn't 'spoil' the view, but by God it wouldn't be very pleasant...