Word: burnering
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...sundry strikes, mostly sit-downs, had 4,500 workers idle in Rhode Island, 4,000 in St. Louis. As the Sit-Down fever flashed like heat lightning over the land, ten farmhands on Charles M. Schwab's estate at Loretto. Pa. supplied themselves with a radio and gas burner, began a sit-down for more pay in the potato cellar...
...Hoffman, who on the side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into...
...crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that a plaster cast of a hand can be made to give accurate and serviceable fingerprints...
...manufacture of dump-truck bodies, then to truck and tractor appliances like cranes, ranches, road scrapers. Another Wood "industry" includes tanks for milk, fuel oil and gasoline trucks. Still another ''industry'' is air conditioning, which the Woods entered in 1930 with the first oil burner furnace designed and built as a unit. Additional space wall soon be added to the Woods' Highland Park plant to take care of its booming air-conditioning business. The Woods also make automobile accessories like heaters, and last year acquired rights to William B. Stout's light, streamlined...
...coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner...