Word: oven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kittens in the Oven...
...kittens in the oven would that make them biscuits...
...shorter-legged, closer to the ground, more nearly a perfect elongated cube, typified the ideal animal that breeders, packers and consumers have been dreaming toward. Weighing 300 Ib.less than Advance, Mercer was a far more economical animal, because he provided cuts to fit the shrinking U. S. oven yet allowed no wastage, achieved maturity in materially less time, could be turned into cash before he ate up his future profits. His broad, deep body, straight back and thick coverings of high-priced meat were the answer to a breeder's prayer...
...college football, but goes in big for new kinds of auto trailers, mountain cabins, patios. It never touches on controversial matters like politics or labor trouble. It plugs the "how-to-do-it" angle, with simple diagrams showing how to design anything from a homespun lampshade to a barbecue oven. Its unvarying, chirpy cheerfulness grates on Eastern nerves, but is fully justified by results to date. Profits for 1938 will be approximately $25,000 as compared with a loss of $71,822 during Lane's first year...
Captain James Job Trolley, the central character of "Salute to Yesterday" is a lusty figure of great individuality. His many successful exploits which he carries off with great bravado, and his many unsuccessful ones in which he shows himself great oven in defeat make him a character to be long revered in the minds of his readers who share with him all his hair-raising and many highly entertaining experiences. All Trolley's "companions-in-crime" stand out for the individuality and we laugh with them at their hilarious escapades...