Word: cooker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Wichita, Kans. to Kansas City, Mo. police, airline Hostess Dorothy Meagher wired: "I left electric cooker going in my room. Please have some one turn off electricity under beans. Police can have beans...
Around the track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen. It was a '"cooker," like the ones used to melt asphalt on highways, with six blast torches to dry out the ground. At Santa Anita, called the world's best racetrack, 18 miles northeast of Los Angeles, all this was part of the world's richest horserace: the Santa Anita Handicap...
...cooker" developed by Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, famed authority on solar radiation. Dr. Abbot's best previous sun cooker, with which he and Mrs. Abbot once cooked all their food for three months, attained temperatures as high as 365° F. The new one, which has double vacuum jackets on the oil pipes where the sun's rays are focussed, gets...
Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...
...time that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had bought a fireless cooker in the basement of R. H. Macy & Co.'s big Manhattan department store last week, 300 wide-eyed women were swimming in her wake. Six private detectives kept them at a respectful distance as they trailed her up to the fifth floor. There they made hardly a dent in the crowd already on hand at Macy's leisure school. Purpose of this school was to show some 30.000 New Yorkers per day what to do with the spare time that was supposedly theirs under NRA codes...