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...fashioned furnace may be bound for the postwar ash heap. Cheap new miniature house heaters have recently been announced by the soft-coal industry and an auto-heater manufacturer. This week the anthracite industry joined in with a pint-sized burner...
...boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...
...brigade works like this: A. C. Ruthenbeck, a tall, ruddy farmer from Tracy, Minn., took delivery of his combine at Enid, Okla. last month. There he began cutting 200 acres of wheat for Farmer Fred Ash. Though the stand was heavy, the yield up to 30 bushels an acre, the sturdy combine averaged five acres an hour. At that rate Ruthenbeck cheerfully figured he could cut 5,000 acres during the summer-long northward trek to his Minnesota home. At an average charge of $2 to $3 an acre, Ruthenbeck's gross will...
Millions of fervid Roosevelt supporters have assumed and insisted that President Roosevelt is a genuine But the President made nis declaration of "nationalism" with hardly a flicker of a cigaret ash. Having plumped for 100% "integrity," he went on smoothly and solemnly. The nations of the world, said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working...
...Vesuvius was too quiet. For days the evil mountain had brooded, had hardly puffed a breath into the sky. Then the giant belched. Up from the crater roared towering pillars of smoke and ash. Down from the crater's lip licked tongues of molten stone...