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Traditionalists among them had little need to mourn. The observatory's new home will be older than its old one: Hurstmonceux (pronounced herst-mon-syoo) Castle in Sussex, built in 1446. From its grounds new and old telescopes will observe the smokeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deserted Meridian | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: O Tempora | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Back to Work | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...fires of modern times had scarcely muted the clang and throb of the nation's production. Now the fast rising tide of postwar strikes lapped up into the fire rooms of whole industries, sent 1,500,000 U.S. workmen into the midwinter streets, created ghost forests of smokeless stacks from Buffalo, N.Y. to Los Angeles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Quiet Week | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...some where into a house - or, under its own roof, added on. Grebe suggests that a large house may have several units (guests might want to do their own laundry or pick up a snack in privacy). At the base of the U is a Swedish-type stove, burning smokeless coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure cooking)-all topped by a long work counter. Along the other arm: a dishwasher, automatic clothes washer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home Is Where the Gadget Is | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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