Word: heater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashioned furnace may be bound for the postwar ash heap. Cheap new miniature house heaters have recently been announced by the soft-coal industry and an auto-heater manufacturer. This week the anthracite industry joined in with a pint-sized burner...
Hard Coal. The heater designed by Anthracite Industries, Inc. (not yet tested in a house) is a steel pipe 18 inches long and four to six inches in diameter (four inches for a four-room house, six inches for eight rooms). It has a feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that...
...James Thomas, newly returned home, tried to produce some hot water for a bath, stoked & stoked the heater, finally discovered that somebody had tapped the wrong pipe - one of his children came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...
...which has compelled U.S. farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines. So says FORTUNE for September in a survey of new farm machinery that may revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising...
...their hands as speculators wrung their pocketbooks. Even after OPA's order, some trucksters wondered how long the brake would hold. Special rules already permit extra charges for such parts as oversize axles, tires, special brakes, etc. Thus, while a truck may be pegged at $675, the extra heater may cost $500-or no sale...