Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fenn, two year veteran, heads the list of goal tenders but should be hard pressed by red-headed Stove O'Neill of last year's '44 sexlet...
Stumbling over uncounted children the names of whom their Italian father could not recall, we interviewed one family around the kitchen stove. They gladly posed for pictures and proudly explained sympathy for the union. The students left with the feeling of conquest and another convert chalked up to their credit...
...some reason, Vag was thinking of his boyhood (how far away it seemed now, when one was old, and tired, and bored with Boston debutantes-). What a weekend that had been! They had come down the mountain in the dark, and there had been singing around the cabin stove after supper, and later a square dance in an old barn to the squeak of a country fiddle, stamping, and the laughter of pretty girls. He thought of long bicycle rides over country roads speckled with red and yellow leaves, and the tang of wood-smoke in the wind. And then...
...Family is not all about Boy Town and fist fights. There are Mother's efforts to make both ends meet, Grandma's efforts to break up the children's ungodly card playing. Grandma found that burning a whole pack of cards in the stove in her room was too much bother, so she sabotaged sin by slyly removing just one card from each new deck. It was always the ace of spades, and Author Partridge believes the old lady thought the ace was the devil's hoofprint...
Started this week by OPM's labor division was a survey of five cities where the effect of priorities was closest at hand and likely to hurt the most: Meadville, Pa. (zippers); Mansfield, Ohio (refrigerators and electrical appliances) ; Evansville, Ind. (refrigerators and automotive appliances) ; Quincy, Ill. (stove foundries); Newton, Iowa (washing machines). After the survey, OPM hoped to give these areas new defense work*- using the power it obtained last month to write compulsory subcontracting, plus special treatment for blighted communities, into Army & Navy contracts. Question was whether enough could be done, or whether it could be done...