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Article: Sweltering Under Hard Hats on a Hot Tin Roof
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- The Washington Post
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- June 23, 1988
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It was heavenly cool in the underground chapels and corridors of
Washington Cathedral yesterday, but it was hellish on top of it,
where stone masons and carpenters continued the work begun 81 years
ago when the foundation was laid for the 301-feet-high edifice.
"Even the animals out in the wild that are physically developed
are looking for shade," said Peter Bill Cleveland, supervisor of the
team of workers, panting and pouring sweat, that stumbled into a
wooden shack for lunch shortly after noon yesterday. "Same with man.
Man gets drained."
Salt tablets are hardly sufficient to stave off the heat, as much
as 10 degrees higher on the lead roof now being built than it is down
below, ...