Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect tension balance, and it has withstood the storms for over half a century, far beyond...
...explosion crushed the nearer house (3,500 ft. away) into kindling wood. The farther house (at 7,500 ft.) was badly damaged, but left standing. In both houses, the dummies huddled under wooden basement shelters were still in good dummy condition. The FCDA's conclusion, urged strongly in its booklet: wooden basement shelters will give enough protection to justify their modest cost...
...were painted white to reduce the effect of the explosion's heat. They had no electric wiring, gas pipes, oil burners or other equipment that might make them catch fire. Except for outside chimneys, the houses contained no masonry, which might have crashed into the basement, crushing the wooden shelters...
FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...
Since 1918, Queen Salote-descendant of a 1,000-year-old dynasty-has ruled her country from a white wooden palace on the main island. A widow since 1942, she has two sons who attended Sydney University, from which she herself graduated many years ago. Her eldest son is her Premier...