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...Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, President in absentia of Stanford University, opined: "We have gathered great numbers of our children into concrete and brick cities. ... It is very difficult to bring up children with the sense of responsibility which is so important, with the electric or gas stove, chemical refrigeration and milk coming in a sterilized bottle...
...Louis, Michael Hirak, rent-free shack-dweller, who burned to death in a coal stove, was found to have amassed $20,000 by saving each month all but $1.35 of his salary...
...Elizabethton, Tenn., at the alleged dying request of her 50-year-old sweetheart, W. T. Ferguson, one Mary Ann Kerry pitched a tent over his grave, slept there, warmed by an old stove...
Fire moves quickly in wooden barns. An oil stove in the men's quarters of the Reether Stable had somehow exploded. Two minutes later a snake of fire ran down the corridor between the stalls of the horses, licking at wisps of straw. All the horses were awake now. They stood tense and beautiful in the darkness, sucking in the smell of smoke with deep, noisy snorts. Men were running about outside...
Hangars are another rarity in the Dominion. Planes are parked out-of-doors. In winter, mechanics build themselves a three-walled shack of lumber or snow, run the nose of the plane in, drape the opening with tarpaulins. An oil stove keeps motors from freezing, the mechanics warm enough to work...