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~ Cabot’s Creosote Shingle and Wood Stains, 1930 (opens a .pdf)

Are you ashamed of your roof? Well, maybe you should be. After all, 100,000 people go up in airplanes every year and you don’t want them looking down at your house and saying things like “…look at the awful roof they have, as common looking as if it were on a prison!”

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LIBERTY, May 24, 1930

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“The first television broadcasting began in 1928, but it was experimental, and the audience was limited to a small area in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. By 1939, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) became the first network to feature regular broadcasts.”

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