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...fashioned furnace may be bound for the postwar ash heap. Cheap new miniature house heaters have recently been announced by the soft-coal industry and an auto-heater manufacturer. This week the anthracite industry joined in with a pint-sized burner...
...Since those days, the story of Ted Lewis has been one of distribution rather than production. He has played the U.S. sticks from Wenatchee, Wash, to Portland, Me. His wife, who once cooked his meals on a one-ring gas burner, now presides over a massive West Side apartment in Manhattan and a 22-room house at Elberon, NJ. On the main road entering his home town of Circleville, the local Kiwanis Club has erected a conspicuous sign reading "Circleville, home of Ted Lewis...
After three years he switched to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He finished the grueling four-year course in two years. While at Tech he helped design one of the first airplane wind tunnels in the U.S.-and wind tunnels are to airplane research what the Bunsen burner was to chemistry. On the strength of this he got a job with the up-&-coming Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co. By the time he was 28 he was 1) a vice president and chief engineer, and 2) unhappy. He wanted to make his own planes...
...Texan in every respect, and so much for that. Your appellation of Connally as a "political gas-burner" (TIME, Oct. 4) and "minor statesman" (Oct. 25) from Texas was no surprise. It was merely putting the thoughts of a number of people into words...
...front burner...