Word: kiln
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...members of his old local never dug coal again but they kept their local's charter by paying their dues regularly as they worked at other jobs around Coshocton. Brother Hugh Green, who had also dug his living in Morgan Run, got work in a pottery kiln. Ben Mobley, whose Sister Jennie became Billy Green's wife, turned to gravedigging...
Before the tournament ends, Congressmen will have used 40,170 Brunswick-Balke-Collender King Pins, changed after each team bowls. Bowling pins are turned from kiln-dried maple, cut from the ten feet nearest the base of old maple trees. They cost $11.85 a set of ten, sell-like the A. B. C.'s 28 alleys-at a discount when the tournament is over...
DEAD ON LIME-KILN...
...Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
Largely in the hands of small family companies, the beer barrel business is booming wherever and whenever whiteoak staves, air-dried for at least two years, can be obtained. Kiln-dried staves are disdained by some brewers though their makers assert they are in no way inferior. Meantime brewers are scouring Europe to make up the 6,000,000 kegs that the U. S. needs to bring its inventory to pre-Prohibition levels. In June alone $1,000,000 worth of kegs were imported from Germany. Using U. S. labor and fittings Dr. Hammer turns out 4,000 kegs...