Word: tile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorists in most Eastern states, the orange tile roof of a Howard Johnson's restaurant is almost as familiar as a gas pump. The Johnson chain, which got its start near Boston 24 years ago, now stretches along highways from Maine to Florida, has outlets scattered all the way to Wisconsin. This year its 355 "stores" will serve 250 million customers and gross $150 million; they constitute the largest roadside restaurant chain in the world. But Founder Howard Johnson, a husky 54-year-old who spends as much time on the road as his best customers, is not satisfied...
After almost a year in residence in the stucco and red-tile building, now under the guidance of a news director, Hans Spiegel, a graduate of Antioch, and his wife, the Center seems to be articulating the often apathetic University community into taking a large part in its activities, both foreigners and Americans alike...
...Church. Since the war, when its roof was wrecked in the siege of Vienna, they have worked as hard to repair Stefanskirche as their 12th century forefathers did to build it. In six years workmen, including free labor volunteers, contributed 1,500,000 hours to its repair. New tiles to cover the slate roof were bought by public subscription (250,000 tiles at 5 Austrian shillings-about 20?-a tile). The entire job cost the people of Vienna...
...some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommend that operating-room floors be grounded in some such way. But there is no uniform code, and doctors disagree about what...
Company spokesman Edward L. Francis said yesterday that the materials used in the floors was a special tile, designed for soundproofing. He added that $1,400 had been spent on further noise muffling since the buildings were completed...