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...potatoes with its washing bins and automatic peeler; this opens into a room where cooks are stuffing chickens by the dozens. The main cooking room is lined on one side with a row of massive ranges, and on another side a row of six stock pots simmer and boil. In the center hang great copper kettles and ladles glistening in the moist warmth while chefs feverishly prepare the evening meal on the tables below...

Author: By Colin F. N. irving, | Title: University Food System Feeds 5700 Daily | 1/6/1943 | See Source »

...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Fuel | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning. It was done in the salon of the yacht, the President sitting upon a chair. ... On this occasion we put our aprons over our street clothes but we did boil the instruments." Cleveland lived for 15 years, died of something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Long Ago | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...With all of the misinformation current about Bataan it makes my blood boil to read about this play which slanders the heroines of Bataan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...ticklish problem of racial discrimination that has been consistently side-stepped during peacetime complacency is now on the fire and is rapidly coming to a boil. The poll tax is on the spot and an even more important question has been raised with the labor unions as a result of the all-out production necessity of hiring more Negroes. In many cases Negroes are not given equal rights in unions that are designed to be the voice of all the workers. Often colored workers are refused membership, a refusal which may later ham-string plants with closed shop agreements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unions Now | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

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