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...with the Bruces. In Tillamook, Ore., one of Mrs. C. W. Bruce's children stopped her mother from throwing a blasting cap into the stove, got it to play with, fell to chewing on it. Father found out, gently took it away from the child for safekeeping, fell to prying at it with a toothpick, blew off two of his fingers...
Five months ago WPB ordered all large units in the stove industry to stop producing stoves and start producing nothing but war goods by July 31, leaving all stove production (on a standardized "victory model" basis) to companies which formerly had less than a $2,000,000 annual gross. Now their gross is still smaller: for lack of materials only about half a dozen of 150-odd smaller companies are now making victory stoves at all. When last counted (late in July) there were some 2,000,000 stoves or about six months' normal supply still in retail stocks...
...stove-league gossip this winter will center around the whole team, rather than the trio of heroes-with an added point for debate: Was this the last World Series for the duration? If it was, the 1942 Cards may be world champions until 1945-or later...
...done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish Bill Jeffers spoke one day in January 1922 to trainmen clustered around a red-hot, pot-bellied stove in the Hanna, Wyo. depot...
...order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped to his place, grabbed the throttle, finally got the plow into Parco. Union Pacific trains ran again...