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...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
...Nippers. In Harlem, William Sheppard Jr., 7, and his brother Ronald, 3, killed a half-pint of sherry which they found behind the stove, were discovered unconscious in their beds...
Already tested, this stove is a box three feet high and two feet square, capable of heating a four-or five-room house (if the circulation of heat takes care of itself). Using new types of air jets and flues, it burns soft coal, eats its own smoke, runs three days without stoking. Twenty-seven stove manufacturers expect to market it before...
...heater is not to be confused with the anthracite-burning Swedish "Aga" stove which, operating on a different principle, burns only 8 Ibs. of coal a day, but is much more expensive ($300 to $600), is used only as a kitchen range...
Something Precious. "The cook shack was nothing but a piece of canvas meant to keep the rain off the stove on which hot rations were being prepared. . . . There was just one other piece of canvas in the picture. . . . It had a regular outline and apparently was something exceptionally precious, something which even in the circumstances had to be kept dry. We had just picked up our chow and were sitting around miserably starting to eat, when from this piece of canvas came the sound of music. It was strange music. It was jive-American jive. I never did find...