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...plainer English, this means that if a farmer got $100 for 100 bushels of wheat in 1909-14, and could buy a new stove and suit of clothes with that $100, his returns today should enable him to buy the same goods with 100 bushels of wheat...
...squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...cramps. I get rheumatism. I froze my ear. I shiver night & day. I [have to] stay near the stove to steam...
Everybody loves a fire--a little soul-warming incident every now and then, especially when there's a big Fire Department turnout. Thus the enthusiasm of the occupants of Winthrop House knew no bounds yesterday when the grease on a kitchen stove caught fire in the small hours (seven o'clock, that is) of the morn...
...Then came the 24th Division to Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...