Word: heater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
Price $1,025 up. Oldsmobile. Redesigned Fisher bodies, finer upholstery, downdraft carburetion, an automatic manifold heater, carburetor-intake silencer, improved transmission with a new "quiet second gear." Price...
...Fluffy" In Newark, N. J., "Fluffy" playful poodle, tugged at a gas-heater hose, jerked it loose. Asphyxiated as they slept were Mr. & Mrs. Michael Moore, Mary Moore, 17, "Fluffy...
...last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck his head in the water heater, turned on the gas. He was found, revived...
...Author. Jim Tully, onetime transcontinental tramper (three times across), farm laborer, link heater, circus roustabout, chainmaker, prizefighter, newspaperman, tree surgeon, was born near St. Marys, Ohio, 1891, now lives in Hollywood, Calif. Other books: Emmett Lawler, Beggars of Life, Jarnegan, Life of Thomas H. Ince, Life of Charlie Chaplin, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish...