Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...
...Wilmington, N.C., 15 Liberty ships, loaded with food and fuel for Italy, remained tied up at the docks. No coal. Around the country, open hearth furnaces began to shut down. Production of pig iron, the raw material of industry, gradually declined. Washington extended its 25% cut in coal-burning passenger locomotives to the country's coal-burning freight engines. Some 400,000 soft-coal miners had already lost $60 million in wages. At week's end the coal strike was in its 14th...
...Hearth & Home...
Escape from Man. In the beginning, the rabbit in the hutch, the domestic pigeon, the hearth cat and the farm dog all agree that freedom, especially freedom from man, will bring total happiness. They escape to the forest, but as time goes on, their happiness wears thin. It is the rabbit that gives words to the principle which ultimately wins them all and becomes a rumor in the forest: renunciation of self, even of personal freedom and of life if necessary, to help establish "that law of love which should govern all the world, prevent it from shriveling like...
...door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes and no sprinkler system, was roaring like an open hearth...