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Type No. 1 in his collection is a Franklin stove. Type No. 2 is the same with a covered front ("The girls," said Hobe, "got precious and wanted fancy doors on their stoves"). Type No. 3 is the box stove sometimes known as the "chunk," forerunner of the kitchen range...
...Precious factories by last week had been stripped of some of their machinery, which was shipped with skilled workers to safety beyond the Urals. River boats and barges, operated entirely by women, had ferried part of the famed Dzerzhinsky tractor plant (now converted to tank manufacture) up the Volga to Kazan, where it was transshipped on flat cars by the Trans-Siberian railway. Other factories still were producing war supplies. Soldiers and workers fighting one battle mingled in the crowded boulevards of the city...
Africa's contribution in raw materials and manpower to the United Nations cannot be in proportion to its size, but what resources Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
...planes will be assisted by another squadron of lighter air ambulances which will whisk wounded soldiers away from points close to the front lines to points where they can be shifted to the larger planes. Purpose: to assure U.S. soldiers of treatment at a fully equipped hospital during the precious first hours after severe injury, when chances for recovery are doubled or tripled...
Strictly stag, Sir Max's party was a literary event to which invitations were as rare and precious as a half-pound of wartime beefsteak. Novelist Charles Morgan (The Fountain) and Poet T. S. Eliot begged so hard to come that they were finally admitted as "gate crashers." George Bernard Shaw declined with thanks, cracked: "I suffered too much from the celebrations at my own 70th birthday 16 years ago to make myself a party to the same outrage at the expense of an old friend who has never done me any harm...