Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obliged to die." When Mrs. Rawlings fell from her horse and broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium." Powerless to move in her steel brace, she heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with...
Centrifugally cast cylinder barrels will be used in all of Ford's Pratt & Whitney engines by this month's end. Both Army and Pratt & Whitney engineers-mindful of the old cast-iron stove lid, which was almost as brittle as glass-were leary of steel castings until Ford testers showed that, while forged barrels burst at 5,000 to 7,000 lb. per sq. in., centrifugally cast barrels burst at 9,000 to 10,000 lb. "Moreover," said a Ford engineer last week, "$10,000 worth of centrifugal dies will turn out as many cylinder barrel blanks...
Cooking on the financial stove last week was the biggest steel merger since Republic Steel took over Corrigan, McKinney in 1935. The merger: $245,000,000 Jones & Laughlin with $38,000,000 Otis Steel...
Even this earth-shaking $12,500,000,000 will not long remain a record. Cooking on the Congressional stove is a bill giving the Navy $26,500,000,000 (72 Panama Canals) in appropriations and authorizations. This sum will not only cover the cost of repairing and replacing the ships battered and sunk at Pearl Harbor, but add 1,799 assorted craft and some 25,000 planes to the Fleet. It will also serve to make progress payments on about 1,000,000 tons of ships already building...
...thousand miles from the nearest seacoast, in a converted stove factory in landlocked Kokomo, Ind., Globe American Corp. is building lifeboats for the merchant marine. Its assembly line, which makes one 3,500-lb. boat every two hours, "launched" its 220th boat this week...