Word: burners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plug Detroit's Timken Silent Automatic Oil Burner, Dean Robinson handed out architects' sketches of houses, along with a folder of building information. So many people wrote in for blueprints that Timken was swamped. Robinson thought Timken should go into the business of supplying blueprints. But Timken said no. So Robinson quit and decided to do it himself. He teamed up with Designer Richard D. Pollman, 33, and two other Detroiters to form Home Planners...
From the bleak jargon of real estate listings, it was hard to recognize the old place: "A twelve-story brick and limestone hotel building equipped with steam heat (oil burner), hot water . . . two Otis drum elevators . . . three dining rooms, bar and 143 rentable units...
Onetime haberdasher Truman, the story related, will take over operation of the store in 1948 ("It will be nice to get back to the old grind"). Henry Wallace will run the union suit department, Clinton Anderson the company cafeteria, Ed Pauley will take charge of the furnace, "an oil burner." Edward Stettinius will be a model in the men's ready-to-wear suit department, will be used in the store window on dull days. "It would be an ideal job for Ed," the President claimed. "He wouldn't have to open his mouth." Storytelling George Allen...
Each unit in the new project provides two or three bedrooms, a living room which also serves as a dining room with a kitchen in one end, and a bathroom with stall shower. A two-burner electric plate furnishes heat for cooking, while room heating is provided by an oil burner. Two small non-electric ice-boxes are furnished to each family. Top monthly rent for a three-bedroom unit is $35, for a two-bedroom unit...
...Stewart-Warner Corp. has developed a gasoline-burner the size of a waste basket, capable of generating enough heat for a 20-room house. Based on the hot-air heater now used in planes, the unit can be hung from attic rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those...