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...fitted some where into a house - or, under its own roof, added on. Grebe suggests that a large house may have several units (guests might want to do their own laundry or pick up a snack in privacy). At the base of the U is a Swedish-type stove, burning smokeless coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure cooking)-all topped by a long work counter. Along the other arm: a dishwasher, automatic clothes...
...rations and the time he rode a German motorcycle to get some ammunition. Mrs. Small turned the eggs over. "It don't seem hardly possible that you got over there and got back," she said. Pfc. Small sat on a stool and put his feet on the stove rail. "There's nothing to it," he explained. "They fire some shots at you and you lie down and fire some shots back...
...three Axis leaders scurry in terror before a thick hail of junked scrap-metal -wrenches, chainlinks, pots & pans, hammerheads, nuts & bolts, ashcans, an ancient boiler, a potbellied stove, a chamber...
Pilgrims & Progress. "Picasso lives in ... a magnificent seventeenth-century house. . . . Visitors cross a spacious courtyard, climb a dark winding tiled staircase to the third floor. ... A long narrow anteroom . . . contains a tall iron stove . . . canvases, paint-boxes, pieces of Negro sculpture, sketches . . . and two rows of kitchen chairs. ... A number of these chairs were occupied [by] Communist politicians . . . art dealers, artists as well as miscellaneous pilgrims...
...nchen-Gladbach, Corporal Sidney Talmud of the 38th Canal Construction Battalion decided to celebrate the Ninth Army's assault crossing of the Rhine and the Passover season. On the porch of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' onetime home, he set up a camp stove and made potato pancakes for passersby...