Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bande Nere promptly fled, but not before being hit. The Colleoni paused long enough to trade salvos with the Sydney. This was fatal. A shell struck into her boiler room, and crippled her so that British destroyers could close in and polish her off with two torpedoes. The destroyers then rescued 545 officers & men who had stripped and jumped overboard. Italian dead & wounded totaled about...
With Big Bill Knudsen of General Motors heading procurement for Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission, no one doubted that General Motors' Allison plant would get plenty of steam in its boiler. To see what could be done about speeding up the main Indianapolis plant, the Army Air Corps sent as its factory representative a famed flier-engineer who was once one of its brightest technical stars. Stubby, go-getting Reserve Major James Harold Doolittle, famed speed pilot and Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering (M. I. T.), was recalled to active duty from civilian life, was glad to answer...
Wright Arthur Patterson is editor in chief of Western Newspaper Union, which supplies "boiler plate" (stereotyped feature columns) and "readyprint" feature pages to rural newspapers. The nation does not stir at mention of his name, but he has some 12,000 country editors as clients (of whom about 4,000 consider Pat Patterson their personal friend), and through their papers he has a total circulation of more than 30,000,000. Last week, in Chicago, 100 of his 4,000 friends gave Editor Patterson a dinner to celebrate his 50 years with W.N.U...
...pitiful sight of Hollywood attempting a classic of character and turning out a turgid Grade B pot-boiler is now on view for the second week at the Keith Memorial in "Primrose Path." Unoriginal in conception, dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever...
Afterwards the pupils went downstairs to the boiler room, there quietly watched a science teacher dissect Fat Stuff. They saw where bacon, ham and pork chops come from, saw Fat Stuff's stomach, lungs, liver, heart. In a few days any pupils who have the appetite for it will be able to eat Fat Stuff in the school cafeteria...