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Time's Nick. In Washington, pious Seaman First Class Robert Baker won a free phone call to Louisiana in a Scripture-reading contest, woke his family in time to rescue them from poison gas leaking from a heater...
They were bow-heavy; in even moderate seas they corkscrewed like cooch dancers ; they sprang leaks along welds; pumps and auxiliaries broke down; hot water heater tubes burned out; stanchions and hooks cracked off; flight decks extended so far forward that heavy seas rolled up under them and in the case of at least one ship carried the forward end of the flight deck away. The Casablancas were an uncertain haven to returning planes, especially if the air was light and the ship was wallowing in a ground swell. Men nicknamed the carriers "Kaiser's Coffins...
...designers claim that the heater will cost much less and be cheaper to run than other automatic furnaces now on the market.* It needs only a small vent (instead of a full-size chimney), can be installed virtually anywhere in the house...
...Stewart-Warner Corp. has developed a gasoline-burner the size of a waste basket, capable of generating enough heat for a 20-room house. Based on the hot-air heater now used in planes, the unit can be hung from attic rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those...
...heater is not to be confused with the anthracite-burning Swedish "Aga" stove which, operating on a different principle, burns only 8 Ibs. of coal a day, but is much more expensive ($300 to $600), is used only as a kitchen range...