Word: oven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the hangar bay and in the compartments above the main deck Constellation became a giant bake oven. The racing flames, fed on a maze of wooden scaffolding and trash that littered the decks, ate hungrily through fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they...
...Dial-an-appliance" household equipment. Developed by Westinghouse, it enables a housewife who is downtown shopping to start dinner before she starts home: she simply telephones her home, then by dialing additional digits turns on the oven, sets it to cooking the roast. Vacationers heading home after a two-week absence can telephone their air conditioners en route, find the house cool when they arrive...
Looking Ahead. With more emphasis on basic research, the new products that lie just ahead promise marvels eclipsing even what the U.S. has accomplished since World War II. Within a year or two, electronic ovens may be available for every home. They will cook a steak in two minutes, a baked potato in four seconds, greaselessly so that the oven never needs cleaning. An ultrasonic breakthrough in the use of sound waves for cleaning promises dishwashing in minutes without water. Shoes and clothes may be whisked spotless ultrasonically as the wearer enters the house...
...breath of the loo last week made a vast oven of north India, sending aloft choking clouds of dust that turned skies the color of tarnished brass. Delicate animals at New Delhi's zoo were shipped off to the mountains to beat the heat, and hordes of humans had the same idea; many queued up all night at railway ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials...
...only from coins but from currency up to $5. Bellringers Restaurant in suburban Chicago, which once served only cold dishes and fried items, recently added twelve meat dishes, 20 casseroles and five hot sandwiches to its menu-without adding a kitchen. The secret: precooked foods warmed in an electronic oven, similar to airplane meals. On the Indiana turnpike. Interstate Hosts' chain of 16 restaurants serves $4,000,000 worth of such meals a year. Boasts Regional Manager F. D. Gibbons in the horrible jargon of his trade: "We don't have cooks in our restaurants -just people...