Word: thermoses
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But, under the surface, Shanghai is radically changed. The most important undercurrent now is almost universal uncertainty. The most fundamental change is in the city government. Foreign control by the taipans-businessmen-is no more. The old, British-dominated municipal council is gone. The mayor is plump, round-faced, impassive...
In 1940 the East Ohio Gas Co. began constructing three big spherical tanks, and a smaller cylindrical one, at their sprawling plant in Cleveland's east side. Each was a giant thermos bottle, cunningly built to contain a strange substance-natural gas reduced to liquid under intense cold. One...
Tom Dewey got hit twice last week, once by a flying thermos jug, when his train crashed in Oregon, and once by Franklin Roosevelt.
¶ A stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat.
Tunisia was strange and far from the American traditions he had absorbed. He had often taken his wife and his namesake son, maps, books, thermos bottle and lunch, to the fields of Manassas and Gettysburg, and he and his army of Pattons had fought the battles out. "George, go down...