Word: flue
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...fire alarm at the control center can mean burning toast, an overheated washer or dryer or a closed flue in a student fireplace...
...tobacco began asking why any tax funds should go to a product that the Government itself says is a health risk. Under pressure, Congress in 1982 decided the tobacco program should be self-sustaining. To cover their loans, farmers were automatically assessed 3 cents for every pound of flue-cured tobacco they marketed...
...excise tax on cigarettes from 8 cents to 16 cents, and cheaper foreign-grown tobacco, about a quarter of the tobacco grown in the U.S. last year went unsold at auction. The farmers' assessment under the loan program was increased from 3 cents to 7 cents for flue-cured, 1 cents to 9 cents for burley, but that covered only $175 million of the $1.6 billion they borrowed between 1982 and 1984 and are legally obliged to pay back to the Government. The farmers are trying to work out a deal with the cigarette companies to buy up the surplus...
Firemen arrived after Johnson and Miller had extinguished the flames and Deputy Fire Chief William F. Murray said because Romero's flue was closed the heat couldn't escape through the chimney so it "banked out into the room...
...still possible, he wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift out on the night air to garland the trees in the Yard...