Word: burners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Colonel William E. Bertram of Chicago was heating water on a gasoline burner-for a bath in the half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F-84 Thunderjets: "We were hitting a bridge halfway between Sinuiju and Sinanju. I saw a MIG on the tail of one of our guys and went to help and then four more MIGs went through me. I went up into the sun and skidded around and caught some more tracers...
...Deep Freeze. The only real cheers for the Democratic slate were heard not in Rochester, but 200 miles east in Saratoga Springs, where the Republicans were gathered for their own convention. Like the Democrats, the G.O.P. delegates also were on hand simply to light the burner under a meal which had been precooked several days ahead and stuffed in the deep freeze until needed. The big difference was, however, that the Republicans figured Tom Dewey gave them a sure thing...
Although he has a reputation as a know-it-all, he is quick to pick up good ideas. When a prospective buyer complained that he could get a four-burner stove that would take up no more room than the three-burner ones in Levittown houses, Levitt said: "You get it and I'll buy it." The buyer did, and Levitt canceled an order for 1,000 of the old stoves and paid $4.50 more apiece for the new ones...