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Housewives will like the kitchen, a rectangular room free of sharp projections, handles, gadgets. Down one side runs a Monel-Metal topped counter in which is set the stove (gas or electric), the refrigerator, the sink. Above the counter are enameled metal cabinets stored with canned and packaged goods which come with the house. "We want you to have two days' food when you move in." says the company. Next to the kitchen, neatly embedded in a thick column, are the furnace (coal, gas, oil or electric), the plumbing inlets and outlets, the air-conditioner...
...mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
Dashing through the icy upper reaches of the Charles, the first 150 pound crew yesterday hit a monstrous iceberg, and stove a large hole in the boat. Cox Ed Barker steered his craft up to an ice pan, and the crew jumped for shore, only two falling by the wayside...
...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...Babe Ruth, who last month announced he would manage a major-league team or retire next season, was, according to gossip in the Hot Stove League, being groomed for the job of running the Philadelphia Athletics by famed old Connie Mack. Last week Ruth and Mack were on their way to Japan for a baseball tour...