Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense shipyard workers) the like of which the U.S. has never seen before. Ground for Camden's 500-family Audubon Village was broken only last February. The buildings were made by a partial prefabrication technique which enabled a crew of ten men to knock together walls and roof in three hours. But it is not only speed which makes Audubon Village unique. It is also the financial plan...
...kind of odd jobs. In this war chaplains can concentrate on spiritual work, and, instead of holding services in mess halls and "Y" huts, they will have a $21,220 chapel for every post (22 in the biggest camps), each seating 400 soldiers, equipped with altar, electric organ, slant roof, steeple. The altars are being built on tracks, so they can be slid back when the chapels are used for other purposes. Ground for the first of these new chapels was broken last fortnight at Arlington...
Westminster Abbey, Britain's foremost receptacle of memories, had its lantern roof, the central part of the Abbey directly over the crossing of the nave and transept, burned out. Tons of debris fell on the spot where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth-and many monarchs before them-were crowned. The Henry VII Chapel was damaged, but the Unknown Warrior in his tomb and the poets in their Corner were not disturbed...
...Great American Broadcast (20th Century-Fox) is Darryl Zanuck's conception of how radio broadcasting was born. According to his version, it was sired by Jack Oakie in a thunderstorm on the roof of an abandoned sausage factory on the Jersey flats, with an assist from a barnstorming aviator (John Payne) and a nightclub singer (Alice Faye...
...N.A.B. will long remember. Anxious to go to the N.A.B. convention in a strong strategical position, Mutual chieftains had called an extraordinary meeting of Mutual affiliates to consider the agreement before the convention's start. Even before Mutual's members had assembled on the swank Starlight Roof of St. Louis' Hotel Chase, President Neville Miller of N.A.B., which is dominated by NBC and CBS, had already wired them asking postponement till he could explain matters at the forthcoming convention...