Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond, Flying Instructor Brock Minor scattered 50 lbs. of dry ice into a cumulus cloud at 8,400 feet, brought the city its first shower in two weeks...
...Fort Worth, the Ed Ritchey Flying Service, supplied by the Parker-Browne Co., a big dry-ice producer, took up rain making as a business, brought one shower in its first two tries...
Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...
...humming with life once more. On its upper floors dormitories have been set up, shower rooms moved in bodily. A staff of 25 cleans and cooks, as academic affairs cram every old corner during...
...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...