Word: skylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Running along the 10-foot-high ceiling, from a small trap door near Room 27 to the skylight above the staircase, the prints, made by a small bare foot, show up plainly against the fresh white paint...
...officeworkers in Manhattan first glimpsed the Hindenburg's silvery nose. A tail wind sped her on to New Jersey. On a Newark roof a garage mechanic stepped backward to get a better view, crashed through a skylight to his death. The big ship floated over Philadelphia, returned to Lakehurst...
Died. Woodford Fitch ("Wood") Axton, 63, president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co., largest independent tobacco company in the world, maker of Spuds, 10? cigarets (Twenty Grand) & smoking tobacco (White Mule, Old Loyalty); of heart disease; at Wildwood, near Skylight, Ky. A thoroughly enlightened capitalist, he limited his salary to $10,000 a year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank...
...schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house in a poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram, you!" he growled. The small boys ran off to the police...
...girl who rode a bicycle into the Adams House Dining Hall on Saturday, during the supper hour, in full blaze of the electric skylight...