Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teach people to live in a space 7 ft. by 7 ft. the only U. S. licensed School of Trailer Economics accompanies the show. From a swank chocolate-colored trailer Captain Jose L. Misfud lectured to trailees on trailer commissary and linen, clothing and bedspread supply, oil and gasoline oven operation, trailer heating and sanitation...
...aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian idea (a "slowly absorbing and digesting soil . . . organic") favorably with the American ("the seething smelting oven . . . mechanical"), admits he was slow to recognize it; now that it is gone, thinks it had its points...
Reason was that Alaska's lush but extremely short growing season made its vegetables bloated, watery. Matanuska vegetables, said Senator Thomas, "taste like icicles." Potatoes must be dried in a slow oven before they can be stored even briefly. Alaskans, he declared, generally refuse to eat their native produce...
What Were The Facts? Being a widower, M. Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend...
...dinner remained in the oven uneaten. Subsequent examination showed that Death came about 11 p. m. but no one arrived until early morning. Then the housekeeper shuffled in to get the Mayor's breakfast and at first only thought he had dozed off in his easy chair near the warm stove and slept the night...