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Four hours later, Dr. Shultz found Sara lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
...years, during which he did not draw at all, Thurber is drawing again (see cover). He works with chalk on black paper, preferably just at sundown on clear days. About the porch of his Connecticut home, where he has his drawing board set up, drawings are stacked along with stove wood...
Less than four months after freezing wages to head off inflation, the Wage Stabilization Board essayed a back-wrenching feat of economic gymnastics, cartwheeled over to the stove, and began thawing wages out to compensate for the rising cost of living. Last week by a vote of 8 to 4 (with industry members in opposition), it granted 220,000 meat-packing workers a raise of 9? an hour, thus boosted their pay 14% above the levels of January 1950, and thereby violated the board's own 10% raise limit...
From the Korean central front TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert cabled: THE aid station, a big, green-canvas structure, was warm with the heat of a single stove and bright with the glare of eight electric bulbs. Its dirt floor was muddy at the entrance, where the wind blew the rain in through the flaps. Outside, an artillery battery fired steadily to the north. The concussion drummed on the ears, of the men inside...
...neon light out front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must be kept in the refrigerator and served stark and chilled, but there is a general suspicion that heating a biscuit is punishable by fine and imprisonment...