Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a local airmail and express service operated from the rooftops of post offices and railroad stations in 400 cities and hamlets. Because the helicopter can fly straight up, straight down, backward, forward, horizontally, remain stationary in the air, and be brought to an immediate stop, any flat roof surface no larger than 9 by 12 ft. could serve as an adequate air station. Northeast would connect New England towns by direct helicopter service with main-line terminals served by domestic and transoceanic airlines...
...general atmosphere is a good deal better. And there is warm romantic melody in such songs as Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and People Will Say, gay lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...
...Amsterdam roof, after the show, Ziegfeld offered his Midnight Frolic, the most glamorous memory in Manhattan nightclub history. There John J. Pershing did some of his victory dancing and the jazz age got under its fanciest headway to the strains of the late Art Hickman's great band from California playing Avalon, Japanese Sandman and the Tishomingo Blues. There, after midnight, lemonades brought appalling Prohibition prices, the Follies chorus and principals entertained, and the most notable playboys of the postwar period started on their hair-losing ways...
...headquarters building one day in a sudden downpour a man who looked like General Patton stood on the roof. He had a tin hat on, his slicker was buttoned close up around his neck. He was looking up at a grey heaven and he seemed to be wondering...
Propaganda's Problems. Elmer Davis, sitting on the smoking roof, was calm as ever. For the Roosevelt cartoons, whose art was more reprehensible than their message, Davis had a commonsensible explanation: the President "symbolizes the United States, both as a powerful nation and as a land of liberty and democracy. This fact is a national asset. . . . A Government information agency would be stupid not to capitalize...