Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Piccirilli brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
...processing tax to Congress, Secretary Wallace had declared that "once pre-War parity is reached, the tax is completely removed." But tobacco is now selling at 27¢ per lb. and AAA is still levying its processing tax. Thus to the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry last fortnight complained S. Clay Williams, board vice chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), onetime chairman of NIRB...
...away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...
...nominates one of the candidates who may succeed himself as President, the electoral machinery being so rigged that a determined President can virtually control the choice of his successor. Saddled with such awful responsibilities, more suitable to a national hero like Marshal Pilsudski than to Poles of lesser clay, the President must swear this great oath...