Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screams in the Subway. "Then a heavy bomb crashed through the tunnel roof . . . and a wave of cold air, followed by dust, swept over us. In the distance someone yelled for a doctor. The clamor for help was taken up by many voices, which were drowned in the next wave of bombs, more fearful than the first. 'For heaven's sake, stop it!' a woman screamed somewhere in the darkness. 'Shut up with that,' broke in a rough man's voice. A stir ran through the tightly packed people...
...have my own troubles, too. I have to explain when I'm half an hour late from the movie. But when I stay home we fight. So I'm just living until the day Herb comes back. We used to gripe about our house: the roof leaked, we needed new screens, and all that. Well, just give me any old house now. Anything, anything...
...high cost of keeping agricultural prices from going through the roof (which set taxpayers back a cool $700 to $800 million for subsidy payments to farmers last year) may be much higher in 1945. This fact came out last week when War Food Administrator Marvin Jones bravely marched up Capitol Hill to ask the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to: 1) extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp., which expires June 30, for two more years; 2) expand CCC's borrowing power from $3 billion to $5 billion...
...stage is set, Boston's top band contracted, and the Parker House Roof bedecked for the swellest dance of 1946. Harry Magnuson has tickets available now for tomorrow's big event celebrating the approach of spring leave and held in honor of the new midshipman class. Everyone and his best date will be on hand, as well as members of the faculty and command, to show the middles what lies on the other side of those case books. See you there...
This week, back in Washington, Mike Mansfield laid his findings before Congress in a 7,000-word report. Said he: "Conditions in China are really bad. . . . [Chinese] soldiers die of malnutrition. . . . China's house has a leaky roof and a shaky foundation. Whether it can be put in order is a question mark...