Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...
Julie Vietman, Stove Wise, and Chuck Hoeizer led the alumni efforts, Vietman barely nosed out his brother Rone, of the varsity, for a second place in the 100-yard breast stroke and Wise, who anchored the winning 150-yard medley relay, swam in the winning 200-yard free style relay. Hoeizer also swam in both of the alumnl's winning relays...
Within the hour, a boyish 28-year-old with cropped blondish hair and a ready grin wheeled into the vacant spot near A. O. Rickenbacker's hardware store. He hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns...
...Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made up for the lack in the transportation...