Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junction of two country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...
Four years ago Lights, Inc. was doing an average $150,000 annual business; today it does $1,500,000 in a peak month. If it handled all that business under one roof, Lights would have to hire between 10,000 and 20,000 employes, would require between $5 and $10 million worth of unobtainable machinery. Instead it employs only 200 people, owns only about $15,000 worth of machinery. The rest of its work is farmed out-mostly to tiny firms...
Both see subcontracting as something more than a war need-as perhaps the hope of the little businessman in the future. Not long ago the president of a big manufacturing firm, who has sweated blood to get his operation wholly integrated under one roof, took a look at Lights, Inc. Said he: "Mr. Thorndike, you're just four years ahead...
...from the rear. Then they retreated to the third floor, where they fought on. An excited, roaring Russian caught a German grenade before it exploded, tossed it back at the Nazis. Next morning, just as the Russians' ammunition was giving out, a clamor of shouting came from the roof. Red comrades had crossed adjoining roof tops to the rescue. Charging down the stairs, they drove out the Germans, who left 52 dead officers...
...breakfast and gets to his office about 5:20. By 8 a.m. he has whisked through the Associated Press copy and typed out three solid columns of editorials. At 8:10 he holds an editorial conference; at 8:25 he walks downstairs, across a catwalk on the second-story roof and into the broadcasting studio of WRNL. Half of Richmond is giving ear when the Doctor goes on the air at 8:30 with his morning news and homily. The station people are awed by his ability to spin out a steady, mellifluous 15-minute newscast without notes or script...