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...church still owed $200 on its $2,700 worth of overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rededication | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Cold. The President, in overcoat and silk hat, was sustained by a concealed, hip-high support, against which he leaned while still appearing to stand. He sipped coffee often-though he usually avoids the stuff-toasted his feet at a small electric heater installed on the floor. "It got so hot I had to pour one of those paper cups full of coffee on it to put out the fire," Truman said later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Have the Job | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Administrator Raymond Foley cracked that "What America needs is a good $6,000 house," the Price brothers sat down to see if it could be done. They substituted an insulated concrete-slab floor for hardwood floors, eliminated the basement in favor of a utility room with a hot-water heater, put an oil heater in the living room and left closets doorless. They got the cost of the unassembled house down to $2,089 f-o.b. the plant. Added costs of erection, wiring, plumbing, etc., said Jim Price, should keep the house under $6,000 on a site costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Six-Day Wonder | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...more advanced model would float serenely to earth on a large parachute. It would be equipped with a heater to keep the pilot from freezing to death in the cold upper air. The really de luxe models may be watertight and stocked with provisions to keep the pilot alive for a while if he falls into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Way Out | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...latter's hotel is already populated with a complete selection of mobsters including a boozy gunmoll and the triggerman with a comic book. Embittered Bogart is at first unwilling to do anything about Johnny Rocco and his cohorts, but Bacall renews his faith, and the gunmoll slips him a heater, so the whole affair is resolved in an cerie gun battle on a fog shrouded cabin cruiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key Largo | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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