Word: heater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chillicothe, Ohio, Mrs. Harry McNeal bent over to dry herself after a bath, backed into a heater named "Good Luck," branded herself with the name reversed...
Outside it is much better. The sedan charts its own course to quieter sectors. Soon it leaves behind the slush of city streets and climbs through untrammeled snow, higher and higher, then circles back and stops, looking down on the city which twinkles in the distance. The heater buzzes efficiently. The radio along breaks the silence with soft chords...
...when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others. Having joined the Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that he was after the lieutenant's job. Last week in Jersey City, Common Pleas Judge...
Three weeks ago something very serious happened to Vincent Doyle. One morning a package was delivered at his office, with a typed note attached: "Lt. Doyle. This is a fish-tank heater. Please install switch in line cord and see if unit will work. It should get warm." When puzzled Lieutenant Doyle followed these instructions, the machine exploded, tearing off three of his fingers and breaking his leg. George Rogers was the first man at his chief's side. Next day, when he took Mrs. Doyle to visit her husband at the hospital, he asked through his tears...
...floorboards. "Dual controls," he said softly. "Don't freeze on them again." The Vagabond looked down, and sure enough, sprouting 'neath his ten-and-a-halves was a clutch and brake pedal of his very own. From there to Newton he kept his feet parked up by the heater...