Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glass was first made in Europe. The glass must be cut to size before furnace treatment because after tempering it is crumbled by cutting tools. It can be finished in various colors whose brilliancy is enhanced by fire-glazing. Suggested uses: all-glass, illuminated gasoline pumps; portholes in ships, kitchen stoves and industrial furnaces; shelves, fire screens, diving-bells; backstops for basketball nets...
Feeble indeed was the seed from which the colony had sprung. One night last year a registered nurse named William Garland Hoffman, having failed at dairy farming in Washington State, sat down at his kitchen table and wrote Administrator Hopkins a letter. He proposed that the Government set him and eight fellow Seventh Day Adventists up as farmers in Alaska. Though Mr. Hopkins replied enthusiastically. Nurse Hoffman soon lost heart. But his small seed had fallen on fertile ground. From New Deal minds, notably that of Assistant FERAdministrator Lawrence Westbrook, there shortly sprang full-blown a scheme for transplanting Depression...
Died. Karl Kingsley Kitchen, 50, Manhattan columnist, epicure and man-about-town, onetime War correspondent and author (After Dark in the War Capitals, The Night Side of Europe); of a streptococcic infection and pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...five Chinese, seven Japanese. The Pan American men bring the total population to 57. Advance crews from the North Haven moved in 2,000 tons of material-160,000 separate items. On a broad clearing they erected seven buildings including a power plant with 9-ton Diesel-electric generators, kitchen & mess hall, refrigeration plant with six months' food supplies, airport manager's office, boathouse with two launches, gasoline & oil storage station, machinery storehouse, radio transmitting and receiving station and radio compass station. In addition there are four houses as living quarters for the staff, other quarters...
Married. The Archbishop of York's favorite kitchen maid, pretty Dorothy Shaw; to George Wilson, Bishopthorpe cobbler; by the Archbishop of York. She changed into traveling clothes in a bedroom of the Archbishop's Palace, left the Palace on her honeymoon in the Archbishop's motor...