Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farley Still Had the Votes. The air-conditioning fizzled; the ballroom became an oven; delegates shed coats, opened collars. Jim Farley, seeking comfort, had an outside freight elevator drawn up to an open door behind the platform. There he sat on a gilded ballroom chair, fanning himself with a newspaper. Henchmen and enemies walked over, whispered, walked away...
...Garden Association how she had made good on a promise to send a barrelful of dried apples to England. Said she: "We don't have hot kitchens like they did fifty years ago, so I called my husband's electrician and asked him to make me an oven...
...World War I, the only large-scale commercial method of producing toluene was from by-product coke ovens, which were then a bright new technological improvement over beehive ovens. Germany's Heinrich Koppers, at the instigation of U.S. Steel, had begun revolutionizing U.S. coke production with his ovens in the early 1900s. War and the Alien Property Custodian dumped his properties into U.S. hands (chiefly the Mellons') and also accounted for the growth of Koppers Co., which by war's end was putting a new U.S. coke oven into operation every 60 days, a new U.S. toluene...
Life became even more exciting when Byron met Margarita Cogni, La Fornarina (the Little Oven), "a fierce product of Venetian slums and backways." Marianna tried to 'defend her prior rights against Margarita, but was crushed by superior logic...
Spooky shot: inquisitive Albert, opening the immense Dutch oven which, the last time he looked, held Miss Fiske's valuables, finds it neatly bricked in, thus revealing to the audience the whereabouts of Miss Fiske's body...