Word: cooker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...power produced. This is the defect of the commonest solar machines which have appeared so far-huge concave reflectors which focus on a boiler, make steam to drive small engines. One of the most optimistic U. S. experimenters, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of Smithsonian Institution, has invented a "sun cooker" with which he roasts meat, bakes bread. Two years ago Germany's Dr. Bruno Lange discovered a way of converting sunlight into electric current a hundredfold more efficiently than had been done before (TIME, Feb. 1 6, 1931). But to run a 300,000-kilowatt power station would require...
...explore or gather scientific data. A tent accommodating two men stands in the center of the display; in the foreground is the powerful radio with which the party transmitted its daily report of the condition of the men, dogs, and food supply back to Little America. The Nansen cooker and the device for melting snow into drinking water are also shown...
...four gas ovens, automatic egg boilers, and a potato peeler. This saves time and also wastes only 1-10 of the potato, while hand peeling wastes 1-3. There are soup vats large enough to boil a good-sized man, a fool-proof food chopper and a special vegetable cooker...
...summary: 1928 LAW SCHOOL Slocum, Cozzens l.f. r.f. Vogel Baldwin, Pusey r.f. l.f. Aitken MacCurdy, Green c. c. Cooker Oothout, Green, Kelley l.g. r.g. Randal Melsenbach, Fordyce r.g. l.g. Fannenbaum...