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...Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Roll Call | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Charlottesville, Va., Alex Holliday, six and black, left in charge of a neighbor's baby, put the baby in a stove because it cried for its mother, hid under bedcovers as the baby burned to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Sistine Chapel, in secret, solemn conclave, meets the College of Cardinals. An ugly black stove stands in one corner. Into this go used ballots, and, until a Pope is chosen, handfuls of straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Action | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...horse heights no longer; free-wheeling and the radio have pried men's feet from off the old wood-stove. Men go their several ways. The covers of the old "Gazette" live and move on the screen; and the tabloids, shock for shock, outdistance and undersell their progenitor. Upstart terriers have worried the old bloodhound to his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PINK LADY | 2/12/1932 | See Source »

...plans have been made to install a soda fountain in the night-lunch room. Complete equipment, including a large stove and refrigerator, has been installed in the room. The space allotted to this equipment is enclosed in a kitchen at one end of the yellow walled room. At the other end are two entrances and a door leading to the wash room. Another door opens into the kitchen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT CAFETERIA WILL CATER TO UNIVERSITY | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

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