Word: sundecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are mirrors, sinks, and smokers on each of Moors' four floors--but only one sundeck, which will branch off the second floor and will be shared by all 104 residents of the dormitory...
...changes, including a 7,000 sq. ft. roof sundeck for employees, ran Broadway's construction expenses from an estimated $3,000,000 to an actual $6,000,000. But it showed retailers some new tricks...
Bayer, who bought an Aspen house himself and promptly settled in it, followed orders. In refurbishing the Jerome Hotel, he kept the water-powered elevator, run by ropes pulled by the passengers. While blonde & beautiful Mrs. Paepcke hunted Victorian furniture in Chicago, dormitories, 20 guest houses and a sundeck were built, the ski slopes were cleared, a movie house, roller rink and art gallery were constructed. Paepcke imported a chef from Switzerland, a wine expert from Chicago. Ski instructors, plumbers and mechanics trooped in. Overnight, the moribund little town became the liveliest spot in Colorado...
...proceedings were conducted in an atmosphere reminiscent of a Southern female academy, vintage 1845. Super-chaperones shooed off men, warned each of the 40 contestants not to drink, smoke or chew gum. Stiffly genteel throughout, the chaperones simply ignored a man with field glasses who peered from a nearby sundeck into the solarium of the Senator Hotel when the girls assembled there (fully clothed). At one point the young ladies were inducted into a "sorority" called Mu Alpha Sigma, which was invented by the contest directors solely for Miss America entrants. Its motto: Modesty, Ambition, Success...
Chief difficulty of the conference, said the two beaming principals, as they lectured the press* on the sundeck of Quebec's Citadel, was how to find enough work for all hands in the Pacific. Winston Churchill had come to Quebec alarmed at the U.S. Navy's rambunctious theory that it could finish the Pacific war by itself. Said he: "You shan't have all those good things to yourselves. You must share." Final results at Quebec seemed to promise just this...