Word: heatless
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...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...
...Africa or Crete heard that a son, a father, a husband, a sweetheart or a friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...
Arriving in Canada, Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...
...policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle's men withdrew. The strikers declined medical aid, huddled in miserable triumph as cold winds whistled through the broken windows of the heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm...
...painters and sculptors face starvation. The situation has reached a crisis-which the government ignores. The only help, thus far, has come from America. Munich and Vienna duplicate Berlin. Hundreds of German and Austrian artists have already entered the coal mines to make a living. The others, working in heatless studios, live chiefly on rice. Thomas E. Kirby, for 40 years leading figure in the art auction business in the United States, is retiring as head of the American Art Association to write his memoirs. [About $60,000,000 worth of art works have passed beneath his hammer since...