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...favorite Venezuelan hosts was eccentric Painter Hernandez Reveron, who paints almost entirely in various tones of white. Artist Reveron first tests the tightness of his canvas by "getting the feel of the tension," next tightens the belt of his burlap shorts, the straps of his sandals and his arm muscles to the same degree. When all the tensions are equal, he attacks the canvas like a tiger. After four hours' work, he is so exhausted that he must go down to the beach, swim out and gulp sea water...
...paralleled by a rush to buy cotton grey goods: sales, 100,000,000 yards, up 80,000,000. This piling up of inventories is a gamble that retail sales will boom before production declines under inventory pressure. But there was an additional reason for textile activity: England, needing burlap for sandbags, has virtually cleaned out the Calcutta market since the outbreak of war with orders so far totaling 1,000,000,000 bags. The price of raw material for burlap is up from ?18 ($84.24) a ton in August to ?88 (about $344.96). Supplies for the U. S. are limited...
...afternoon last week Manhattan Patrolman John Cersosimo chased a ramshackle Buick lickety-splitting through Harlem. When he caught up with the Negro driver he saw, squirming and squealing on the back seat, a bulging burlap...
...result of their tests has been to replace old-style burlap and fishnet "flattops" for concealing big guns and trucks with new style drapes made of visinet, a light, durable paper compound. Fort Belvoir camoufleurs "dazzled" visinet drapes with green blotches to resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look...
...rough red cover of the 115 page volume is made of a burlap material and bears the Kirkland Seal in gold...