Word: heatless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand in chow lines, sleep in heatless barracks, work in icy offices-and our promotions are subject to approval by WAC officers. We don't wish to detract from G.I. glory or to minimize their sacrifices, but we have shared some of their loneliness and privation and the least we expect from gentlemen is respect...
...York City's Department of Health got 1,526 complaints about heatless apartments. In many another locality, especially along the Eastern seaboard, shivering householders eyed their dwindling coal bins and thought unkind thoughts about John L. Lewis. Patriots who had converted from oil to coal had an extra curse for Harold L. Ickes...
...small sleds. When the water system fails, they chop holes in the ice to scoop water out of the gutters. They line up daily in long queues for their dwindling food rations; each carries off an allotment of bread that barely covers the palm of his hand. In their heatless homes and factories they work, eat and sleep in greatcoats, gloves and hats...
Died. Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, 79, son of the 20th President, longtime (1908-34) president of Williams College; in Williamstown, Mass. He was U.S. Fuel Administrator in World War I, and responsible for the various heatless days, lightless nights, gasless Sundays of that...
...hope came to householders along the Eastern Seaboard who have been shivering over grim predictions of fuelless days and heatless homes next winter. The Government—a year too late—finally gave orders for a pipeline last week...