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...power into the arteries of this farmstead." Actually he did nothing of the sort because the switch box was only a ceremonial dummy and power was already flowing through Rosedale Farm. Inside the farmhouse were electric clocks, an air-cooling system, a vacuum cleaner with headlights, refrigerator, dishwasher, food-mixer, curling irons. In the farm shop lathes and tools were electrically operated. Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were warmed in an electric incubator, while in the poultry house hens were urged to extra efforts by ultraviolet ray lamps. Hogs were kept in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Electrical Elysium | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...hotels, sold so much steel that in 1929 he was made assistant sales manager, later assistant to the president, finally vice president. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop has been in actual charge of Weirton since last summer, when the late President John C. Williams became fatally ill. A good mixer, Weirton's best labor handshaker, President Millsop likes ancient history, sports, goes to company baseball games in his shirtsleeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...kitchen itself one corner is devoted to pastry, with a large electric dough mixer and a row of enormous cans on casters labelled "Bread Flour," "Cake Flour," "Whole Wheat Flour." Along one side stands the new, 24-ft. electric stove with two ovens, each capable of baking 40 loaves of bread or roasting 125 lb. of beef at a time. Mrs. Roosevelt was particularly pleased with a steam table called a "Thermotainer," as big as an emperor's sarcophagus, for keeping food hot. Another Thermotainer resembling a heavy, chromium riling cabinet on small balloon tires is used to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bogged in Budget | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury. Dr. Drury is a tall, stern man with a powerful, sonorous voice. No mixer, he has little contact with the school's 440 boys until they reach the Sixth Form, when he has them in to Sunday tea. Boys call him "The Drip." Once a year the publicity-wise Rector submits a report addressed to his trustees but intended for outside consumption. Progressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: S. P. S. Report | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...stand and deliver a State election as Boies Penrose in Pennsylvania or Tom Taggart in Indiana did in their day. Last week a primary showed that Missouri could still lay claim to such an oldtime boss in the person of "Big Tom" Pendergast, master of Kansas City and mixer of most of that city's concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ferment | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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