Word: flues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, sleeping students in the Gothic-style men's dormitory at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio awoke to hoarse shouts of "Fire!" By then, the 120-year-old building was doomed. Smoke billowed through corridors, and flames (which had started in a defective flue) were rolling up the old-fashioned stair well in the center of the building. As men jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows...
...Housemaster's influence is also felt in a number of other Lowell traditions, such as the Monday night formal high tables and the annual Christmas dinner, featured by the lighting of the Yule log. Master Perkins almost invariably forgets to open the flue...
...save dollars, Britain, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. flue-cured tobacco (54% of all flue-cured exports last year), abruptly canceled $25 million of scheduled purchases. The price, which had already fallen after earlier cancellations, began to approach the level at which the Government is required to support it. Tobacco markets shut down while Washington made up its mind what to do. Then Washington showed why anyone who gambles in commodities has the odds-and the Government-on his side...
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announced that the Commodity Credit Corp. will spend about $25 million to finance the tobaccomen who had been buying flue-cured tobacco for the British. For example, if a buyer had 10,000,000 lbs. in British orders to place and had bought only 7,000,000 lbs., CCC would finance the remaining 3,000,000 lbs. In effect, the plan made the buyers agents for the Agriculture Department. If the buyers cannot sell their tobacco, the Department will take it off their hands...
...Swiss Protestants think it might not have taken so long if De Flue had not had so many leanings away from Catholicism...