Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget does not include steam heat (which comes from the Old State Building across the street), food (which is paid for by the President out of a $40,000 accountable expense allowance), office staff, ushers or personnel who work for other departments, e.g., the Treasury's Secret Service men and White House police, the Pentagon's soldiers who drive White House cars. Chief White House Usher Howell Crim showed Congressmen that he keeps a taut budget: last year he came out with $41 to spare...
Below decks, the situation was hideous. Buttoned up for battle, the LSMR became as breathless as a steam room. Temperatures often hit 140°, posing a serious hazard of debilitation among the crew and a downright perilous situation in the magazines. Sailors slept face to foot in cramped, fetid racks of three, and life was a reasonable approximation of a Roman galley. But all that has changed. Last week, on the fir-fringed shore of Puget Sound, the Navy proudly unveiled the IFS- I (Inshore Fire Support Ship), a ship that combines all the striking power of its ancestor...
...chow line is a "gedunk" soda fountain. The gleaming galley has most of the comforts of modern living, including an electric mixer, a potato peeler, a dishwasher, and a garbage grinder that should frustrate gulls and porpoises. Elsewhere on the ship are a 15-lb. washing machine and a steam dryer and presser...
...even carried the word to the Western Allies. If the topic occasionally lacked proper weight, it was naturally obscured in a whimsical haze. These are all the dog days, however, and we are ready to bark up al the little trees at once. Following are a number of minor steam releasers, conveniently labeled so you can pick and choose...
Shaver, another member of the old management. This gave Barr and Clarke complete control of the company in most critical matters. This was the first blow at Wolf son. The second : the board steam roller flattened Wolfson's plea for a committee to search out a new president, smoothly named Chairman Barr to that post as well. When the meeting ended, Wolfson, shut out completely, was near inarticulate and trembling with rage. If he continues his batt'e for control of Ward's, he will have to fight a tough...