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...Wery Obstinit." Falls, the cruelty of masters, and the great weight of the soot-bags broke the limbs and bent the backs of almost all. The most dreaded hazard of the occupation was suffocation, if a fall of soot caught a boy at an awkward turning of a flue...
...help make the cloud, a daily quota of 100 tons of metallic oxides goes up the flue. Factory smokestacks, city dumps, backyard trash fires, automobile exhausts and even coffee roasters unite in sending up an immense mess of aerial garbage-estimated altogether at 2,000 to 5,000 tons...
...last week, sleeping students in the Gothic-style men's dormitory at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio awoke to hoarse shouts of "Fire!" By then, the 120-year-old building was doomed. Smoke billowed through corridors, and flames (which had started in a defective flue) were rolling up the old-fashioned stair well in the center of the building. As men jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows...
...Housemaster's influence is also felt in a number of other Lowell traditions, such as the Monday night formal high tables and the annual Christmas dinner, featured by the lighting of the Yule log. Master Perkins almost invariably forgets to open the flue...
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announced that the Commodity Credit Corp. will spend about $25 million to finance the tobaccomen who had been buying flue-cured tobacco for the British. For example, if a buyer had 10,000,000 lbs. in British orders to place and had bought only 7,000,000 lbs., CCC would finance the remaining 3,000,000 lbs. In effect, the plan made the buyers agents for the Agriculture Department. If the buyers cannot sell their tobacco, the Department will take it off their hands...