Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personnel Relations. Mrs. William Burns of Newark advertised desperately for a maid, offered her the use of a mink coat on her days off, got a maid all right-after receiving 600 phone calls in two days...
...Fashioned Man. Dr. Lascoff was born in Vilna, Poland (then Russia) in 1867 and got his education there. He came to the U.S. in 1892. In the Prince Albert coat and high silk hat that European chemists wore in those days, he began compounding prescriptions for Manhattan's Hayes & Son at $2 a week. He was raised to $10 before the week...
...reporters folded up and went away. Glamor peeled off, the big house on R Street looked like an old coat of paint. The tantalizing dinners, the high-blown conversation turned as sour and dull as their host's description of them. James Porter Monroe was nothing but dull proof once again that anyone with a fast line, some stationery, a telephone, an expense account, can fool Washington. He did not know his way around; he had no influence. Washington bigwigs went to his house because they are always going to somebody's house. Washington reporters knew all this...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...
...must be compacted from the bottom. This is done with the well-named "sheep's-foot" roller (see cut), whose hundreds of small steel projections pound down into the mixture. Once tamped hard, the surface is graded smooth, then protected against scuffing by a thin bituminous top coat...