Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andy Harchar's all-tile Slavia Bar, on street corners and outside Capy's Lunch, the responsible heads talked it over. Would a long strike fail...
...breath-taking harbors west of Naples, cost $60 a month. For $150 a month the lotus-eater got the sort of house awed tourists peer at in Palm Beach-shady, parklike grounds on the mountainside, a sweeping gallery on which a hundred people could be entertained at cocktails, a tile swimming pool. Often the lower-priced houses had swimming pools...
...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...
Last week President Truman could see progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
...teachers, like the pupils, were of all kinds. The Russian instructor, a tile-maker by trade, had graduated from a university in Leningrad. Telegraphy was taught by retired Union Pacific operators. Emily herself had not had much formal education and played schoolmistress by ear. She thought it worked: "It's what a person can do and not the letters after a name that ought to count. I would take a teacher with a high-school certificate rather than a master's degree, if she had understanding...