Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian Mission hospital at Barrow contains nine beds, accommodates additional patients on the floor. Dr. Greist solved the problem of water supply by connecting a large iron drum to the hospital stove. In the drum is kept a constant supply of melting ice. For help in the hospital Dr. Greist depended on Mrs. Greist and another trained nurse...
...Fishberg, who does not know how to bake potatoes in her kitchen stove, learned the particular symptoms of fever by baking healthy human beings at a temperature of 106° F. She used one of the big radiothermic ovens which General Electric's Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney designed and loaned to a few U. S. hospitals for the heat treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, April 22, et ante). For proof that her test subjects develop pure fevers and nothing else, Dr. Fishberg usually heats them until fever blisters form on their lips. As demonstration of how to offset...
...president of Lindemann & Hoverston Stove Co. has threatened to move his $1,000,000-per-year payroll out of the city if the Socialists are kept in power next week. Other businessmen, say anti-Socialists, are canceling expansion plans or preparing to move because of the Red nightmare. New business, they assert, is being frightened away from Milwaukee...
...were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...
Sprinting through the snow shortly before 5 A. M. went a group of resolute figures in the mustard-colored uniform of the Japanese Army, lugging with them a few machine guns. They dashed through the Premier's gates and with rifle butts stove in the Premier's door. Rushing in they found a Japanese of medium height with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head whose sleeping kimono flapped about his knees in the wintry gusts from the broken door...