Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auto Reflex. In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook's car blew a tire at a railroad crossing, careened down the tracks, struck a signal switch, threw a red block against an approaching freight train...
...sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...
...going to have quite a time living it down. The predicament: Miss Stanwyck, a highly publicized writer of recipes for a woman's magazine, has been pretending to her avid public (and to her honest publisher, Mr. Greenstreet) that she is a Connecticut country housewife, mother and cook. When the publisher insists that she entertain him and War Hero Morgan over Christmas, she is forced to make a hasty collection of the source of her recipes (Restaurateur Sakall), a phony husband (Reginald Gardiner), his Connecticut house, a neighbor's baby...
...distant future, housewives may turn into ladies of leisure: they may have a trim, prefabricated power plant to do most of their house work. Dr. John J. Grebe, head physicist of Dow Chemical Co., has blueprinted a compact, 3,500-lb. unit which will cook, wash the dishes, wash, dry and iron clothes, freeze food and provide all bathroom facilities. The whole unit, says Grebe, is only a little bigger than an automobile and will sell for about the same price...
...Hyannis, Mass., Hobart A. H. Cook, 33, discharged Navy flyer, leased a Lockheed Lodestar from the Government, sold $13,000 worth of stock, started Trans-Marine Airlines Inc. (New York to Cape Cod). At Hyannis, his wife drives the passengers into town. Last week, with customers standing in line to get reservations, Cook observed: "I don't want to become a big airline. I want to become a big seasonal operator...