Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...star of Midas' 30-model trailer, camper and motor-home lineup: the Midas mini-motor home, known as a Chopped Van. Midas buys the cab and chassis of a GM, Ford or Dodge van, then builds on an insulated aluminum and wood body complete with tub, shower, refrigerator, stove, beds and other amenities. Selling price: $12,000. Midas' sales of recreational vehicles jumped from $60 million in 1975 to $106 million in 1976. That is more than half the figure for the giant of the motor-home business, Winnebago Industries...
...those of school, seem to be solid and good. The family was prosperous. She had a pony and later a horse. Her mother is a strong, intelligent woman with a gift for science (Linda's maternal grandfather was Lloyd Copeman, a successful inventor who devised an electric stove and an early form of microwave oven...
...three drowned. In Atlanta, Mrs. Irma May Key, 51, died of exposure, after falling a short distance from her apartment. Veronica Hynson, 22, and her three children died in a fire in a Baltimore row house. The oil tank was empty, and the gas jets in a kitchen stove had been turned on for heating...
Adams will bring a touch of Georgia to the Cabinet, but not of the Carter kind. His father's Atlanta clothing store went broke during the Depression, and Adams was reared on small farms in Iowa and Oregon. A well-remembered hate: chopping wood for the family stove. A brilliant student (top in his class at the University of Washington and a law degree from Harvard), an early booster of John Kennedy, a rousing success in both Washingtons, he continues to keep a sharp eye on the road ahead. His presumed next stop: the U.S. Senate...
Many a small-boat sailor prides himself on knowing what a No. 3 Rip-pingille stove is from the reading of this novel. A band of literary aficionados accounts some of Childers' prose as the finest ever written in English on the experience of sailing. First published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands caused a sensation by speaking of a plausible German invasion of England. It has been reprinted enough to become a minor classic. Generations of readers have leaned back joyfully into the author's affectionate knowledge of the sea as they follow the adventures...