Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...switch may not be noticed by the 18,000,000-odd readers (6,000,000 combined circulation) of This Week. Their magazine is a boiler-plate assemblage of Grade-B fiction, short articles of the type known as "punchy," home economics and familiar homilies. This Week avoids all controversial issues. The result is pallid fare. But This Week, now eight years old, is a very profitable venture. Last year its advertising revenue reached $7,000,000, and member papers shared profits greatly exceeding the price they paid (as little as $7.50 per 1,000 copies) for carrying the magazine. Backer...
...dreadnoughts was merely "interesting, just as was the fact that Henry VIII had six wives." Hen-rose's eyes were, as usual, fixed on a test tube, searching for "the slightest trace of the white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director sight upon...
...different man: "In the five hours he had grown tired. As his speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...
...Last week the Brooklyn plant of Fanny Farmer Candy Shops was told to convert to coal. The plant now uses two boilers fired by oil, will have to run at least one while converting. The hitch: it must get an OPA permit for enough oil to run one boiler for 60 days...
...boardroom, stopping at the landing to recover breath so that he might make a lordly entrance as of old." He got out his final version of A Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke's ideas on death annoyed out of him the stanza which was to close his epitaph...