Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before had a President of the United States been asked such a question. But never had a President run for a third consecutive term. Mr. Roosevelt, who ordinarily thrives on broken precedents, looked grim. The question, said he, was very interesting-it had everything in it except the kitchen stove. Who, he wondered, had thought up the question? Said Newsman Browne: "I did, Mr. President." It was, said Mr. Roosevelt, a very interesting question-very deftly worded. "Is there an answer?" asked Newsman Browne. The President only said again: it was a very interesting question, very deftly worded. Reporter Browne...
...eastern Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about REA's cooperative units for bringing electricity to remote areas. In a nonce, poles go up, wires are strung into the farms (Voice: "long wires-there's a tune...
...Plans. The present Chief of Staff, George Catlett Marshall, has had his job a year. In that year a new war, new ways of making war, new and successive enlargements of the Roosevelt theory of Hemisphere Defense have kept General Marshall shifting paws like a cat on a hot stove. Last February he put the procurement of more material ahead of recruiting more men for the Regular Army. Last June, the unofficial but well-informed Army & Navy Journal reported: "The War Department does not look with favor upon proposals to increase the enlisted strength beyond 375,000 men at this...
Italy's portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...
...Italy's portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...