Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated in a potbellied WPA stove...
...young man, George Stevens, a pale young Negro, had worked as a porter in an Akron hotel, had got a job in a stove company. His aptitude for mechanics had attracted the attention of an Akron industrial pioneer, Ohio Columbus Barber, founder of the city of Barberton, Ohio, who hired him. Soon he became chief engineer at Barberton's Portage Strawboard Co. Later he moved to Indiana, worked at several plants, migrated to Hartford City, which had long smugly accepted the fact that it had not a single Negro resident...
...where they slept with Uncle Samp. Next morning they left :arly. When Uncle Samp woke up, he roared and raged out of the house: what was left of his mustache stuck out "like two small grey horns." When he was gone, Mother got the children to move the beds, stove and furniture into the smaller smokehouse; then she set a match to the house...
...desperation Pilot Alcock set the Corsair down with a sickening crunch that stove in her bottom. As she started to flounder, he deliberately hurtled her at full throttle against the steep shore. While his five frightened passengers jumped to safety he kept his engines roaring wide open, managed to hold the ship against the bank until his crew unloaded the mail, jumped clear. As the 2,960-h.p. engines finally sputtered and died, some $200,000 worth of flying boat sank back into the tropic Dangu...
...enough to be out of school have plenty of time to "go to the store" or into town, and not much to do when they get there. Even in the southern counties, winds blow chill across the fields. At a crossroad store ("GROCERIES, HARDWARE & GEN'L MERCHANDISE"), the stove is hot, the air laden with the smells of harness leather, coal oil, turpentine, of bodies white and black, of cheese, sardines, tobacco juice, tobacco smoke, Garrett's snuff. A man can always find company at the store, sitting and talking, drinking soda pop, maybe just sitting...