Word: burners
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...Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion...
Sample: a playlet which takes place in "the combination cellar and playroom of the Bradley home in Pelham Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley and their two children, Bobby and Susie, are grouped about their new automatic oil burner. They are all in faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher...
...Science students had to make their own equipment: e.g., "laboratories" in the Bronx High School of Science had no gas lines, no running water. To operate a Bunsen burner, pupils inflated a football bladder with gas, took it to a laboratory, attached it to a burner, got a flame lasting two minutes...
Rushing into the flames with axe and hose, the youths aided the understaffed volunteer fire departments of the neighboring towns in quelling the blaze that arose from a clogged oil burner...
...Claire, Wis., Oil-burner Salesman W. B. West, arrested for speeding, could not pay the $20 bail bond. He got the money by persuading the desk sergeant to make a $20 down payment on an oil-burner...