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Apparently Sears offered “soft seat” options such as a hot water heating plant back in the day

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The house I grew up in is an Eaton's Catalogue house built in 1917. The whole package was shipped to the local train station and the local builder put up the house.

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Very cool anecdote RE: Kaltenborn in Russia. Was curious about this autobiography but had trouble searching it. Is it called "I Broadcast the Crisis"?

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No, that's a different book (about his broadcasts during the war years). The autobiography is entitled "Fifty Fabulous Years."

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