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...Magistrates were authorized to fine ?100, and/or imprison for three months, anyone convicted of destroying cardboard or paper...
...biggest problem. With Belgian linen cut off, prices of first-class material are up nearly 300%, and most artists are making shift with domestic cotton substitutes. (The U.S. does not grow the right kind of flax for high-grade linen canvas.) Some artists are experimenting with beaverboard, shirt cardboard, many building-board substitutes (like Masonite...
...plot's not much and the girls aren't much, but the whole theatre swayed back and forth when Glenn Miller hit his stride on Chattanooga Choochoo and the Nicholas Brothers and Sister started clicking their heels on the back of a cardboard train panting for cottonland...
...Poon man takes home a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful President, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
...stage was set at Shreveport's green-swarded Barksdale Field. Across the field and less than a mile from the spectators was a plot 2,000 feet long, 1,000 feet wide (eight big city blocks), spotted with 100 obsolete tanks, a few reconnaissance cars, patches of cardboard to represent troops. Rearing above the junk were two white pyramids, each the center of a 100-foot circle. These were the bull's-eyes for the high-altitude bombers...