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...president of Lindemann & Hoverston Stove Co. has threatened to move his $1,000,000-per-year payroll out of the city if the Socialists are kept in power next week. Other businessmen, say anti-Socialists, are canceling expansion plans or preparing to move because of the Red nightmare. New business, they assert, is being frightened away from Milwaukee...
Sprinting through the snow shortly before 5 A. M. went a group of resolute figures in the mustard-colored uniform of the Japanese Army, lugging with them a few machine guns. They dashed through the Premier's gates and with rifle butts stove in the Premier's door. Rushing in they found a Japanese of medium height with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head whose sleeping kimono flapped about his knees in the wintry gusts from the broken door...
Most recent Corning product is Top-of-Stove glass, developed by a team of Corning Ph. D.s under the captaincy of burly, wisecracking Research Director John Clyde Hostetter. They were looking for a glass which could be put on the top of the stove (not merely in the oven) and with which food could be served in the same dish in which it was prepared. Experimenting with 1,500 formulae, they cooked 18,000 lb. of potatoes and nearly as much hamburg, fed Coming's stray dogs on the results of their experiments. They cooked on wood...
Advantages of Top-of-Stove glass: quicker cooking, better flavor, less dishwashing, lower fuel bills, no food lost in transmission from stove to table to refrigerator. Typical dishes prepared in Top-of-Stove ware: caramel dumplings, creamed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, cream of tomato soup, chicken a la king...
...last week some 7,000,000 U. S. farmers came in from their chores, stomped their feet, dropped their mittens and sat down by their kitchen stoves to warm their frost-nipped hands. That day no kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff...