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Word: stoves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plainer English, this means that if a farmer got $100 for 100 bushels of wheat in 1909-14, and could buy a new stove and suit of clothes with that $100, his returns today should enable him to buy the same goods with 100 bushels of wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Faith, Hope, & Parity | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Flick of an Eyebrow | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...cramps. I get rheumatism. I froze my ear. I shiver night & day. I [have to] stay near the stove to steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Goodbye to All That | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Everybody loves a fire--a little soul-warming incident every now and then, especially when there's a big Fire Department turnout. Thus the enthusiasm of the occupants of Winthrop House knew no bounds yesterday when the grease on a kitchen stove caught fire in the small hours (seven o'clock, that is) of the morn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fireman, Save My Bacon' Cry Sleepy, Smoked Puritans | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

...Then came the 24th Division to Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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