Word: heatless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legged Communist named Idris Williams sat last week in a tall office building with his back to the winter view of beautiful Sydney Harbor. Two hundred seagoing ships were tied up there for lack of freight or bunker coal. Australians were shivering in heatless houses. Electricity for cooking, lighting and hot baths was rationed, and 650,000 had been thrown out of work because their factories had no coal. Comrade Williams, president of the Miners Federation, had called a coal strike...
...Nazis moved into their home, banded their arms with the yellow Star of David, sent Ervin's father to the Russian front as a gravedigger for the army. For months, Ervin and his mother lived in a dingy, heatless flat, hidden out by the music loving Swedish Ambassador...
Priorities & Ear Muffs. The worst shortage was in oil. It affected the entire East, and New York City in particular. With thousands of New Yorkers heatless, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered oilmen to put deliveries on a priority basis, giving first call to homes, apartment buildings and hotels. The Navy sent 40 of its tankers into civilian service and even dipped into its own oil reserves to relieve distress in some areas. The Commerce Department cut oil and gasoline exports...
Gadgets have helped: new machines for anesthetics; easily tilted operating tables; glareless, heatless, shadowless operating-room lights; new sutures, like those made of the rare metal tantalum, to replace cat gut* for certain operations...
...John Benjamin Powell, 60, veteran newsman, prewar editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review and managing director of the China Press; of a heart attack, just after making a speech warning the U.S. against a resurgent Asia; in Washington. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese threw Editor Powell into a heatless Shanghai cell, where he developed gangrene and beriberi, lost 70 of his 160 pounds, eventually lost parts of both feet...