Word: grebe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grebe in TIME [May 20] vents holy ire v. the farmers "who were exempted from fighting to raise food for the country." Ed Grebe should talk with the average articulate farmer and hear his side. Almost all farm boys were inducted eventually. Farmers who remained were generally ineligible-disabled or too old. Hired hands who were ineligible almost all deserted the farms to work in the high-pay defense plants. The farmer had to work twice as hard with broken-down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service...
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Some day in the not-so-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...
...Grebe's machine is a U-shaped room, 7 by 12 feet, which can be fitted some where into a house - or, under its own roof, added on. Grebe suggests that a large house may have several units (guests might want to do their own laundry or pick up a snack in privacy). At the base of the U is a Swedish-type stove, burning smokeless coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure...
...whole contraption, made largely of magnesium, plastics and glass, will come complete with water pipes, ready for installation. Dr. Grebe believes that deliveries of his omnibus house machine will begin "soon...