Word: burners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finale was Bill Veeck's greatest moment. He had conquered Cleveland and he was anxious to move on. All through 1949, while the team played indifferent ball, talk of the sale of the Indians bubbled on a back burner. Last week Veeck sold his Indians for an estimated $2,200,000 to a group of Cleveland businessmen headed by Insurance Executive Ellis Ryan. The sum was about $1,000,900 more than Veeck and his partners had paid for the club. Said Bill Veeck, when asked what major-league city he was planning to invade next...
...chemistry and physics. Julius Oppenheimer-who had begun to consider his son as a kind of public trust-arranged for Klock to give Robert a special, intensive summer course in chemistry. They brought their lunches to the laboratory. While Klock brewed strong tea in beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent him from getting an education." Robert...
...will work at the Institute, in the world's biggest institution for cancer research, showed visiting cancer specialists through the well-equipped laboratories. Said one biologist, who spotted a coffeepot heating over a Bunsen burner: "That's one piece of apparatus we're sure will work." But Dr. Cornelius P. ("Dusty") Rhoads, head of the Institute and of the affiliated Memorial Hospital, was more hopeful. Said he: "No one can predict from what source a major discovery will come. One can predict, however, with absolute certainty, that sound, careful, faithful investigation will justify itself in terms...
...last week Sir Bernard, 70, ill with coronary thrombosis and arthritis, locked himself into his little laboratory in University College, London. He tore up some documents and opened the petcock of a single Bunsen burner. It was enough for his final experiment. At week's end in St. Pancras court, where Sir Bernard had often given expert medical testimony, Coroner W. Bentley Purchase returned "with reluctance" a verdict of suicide...
...first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should realize] that a new oil-burner installation does not carry with it an assured supply of fuel." Monroe Jackson Rathbone, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), "Big Jersey," went even further. He suggested that all U.S. refineries allocate the supply of oil to retailers; in effect, a form...