Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the scientist nodded to TIME's correspondent. "Turn the switch." The switch looked like a valve on a gas stove, it turned easily. Control rods (probably of cadmium) clanged into place. They soaked up the vital neutrons faster than they were produced from the uranium. The pile stopped...
...dark, cold, turf-walled farmhouse, Bjartur's wife lies dead in a pool of her own blood. The fire in the stove has gone out. The oil lamp is empty. On the bed, with only a half-starved dog to warm it, lies a newborn baby...
Diehard. In Kansas City, John Davis tried unsuccessfully to end it all by 1) swallowing iodine; 2) taking merthiolate; 3) sticking his head into a gas stove; 4) shooting himself in the head; 5) drowning himself in the bathtub; was about to slit his throat when police arrived...
From manufacturers and retailers Hubbard, promising heavy plugs on the air, seined some $560,000 in merchandise. Whoever landed a tagged fish would get $560 in prizes: a camp cook stove, camp refrigerator, utility light, aluminum lawn mower, goatskin coat, outboard motor, suit of clothes, a woman's fur coat, two wool blankets and 52 cases of Pepsi-Cola. Another $6,000 in premiums, including a new car and trailer, would go with the first fish tag ending...
...everyday drama for those who knew farming, and for schoolteachers it served to illustrate the homely lesson that dawn follows darkness and life rises again from the earth. And it was nice for turn-of-the-century housewives to glance up from the grits and bacon simmering on the stove and rest their eyes on the ancient world represented in Reading from Homer-somehow infinitely cooler and finer, and with more marble...