Word: coppered
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...went over to Kanorado and hired himself a preacher, the Rev. S. H. Mahaffey of the Full Gospel Church. Then he plunked down part of his savings for a $3,600 solid copper casket. When the word got around, some folks didn't think it right that Jim should have a funeral when he wasn't even dead. The singers Jim had engaged suddenly backed out and the school board wouldn't let him have the Community Center auditorium. But the publisher of the town's paper was on Old Jim's side. "Some church...
...their use of copper...
...visiting Oudtshoorn, praising feathers and publicly plucking an ostrich. This year, Manhattan's Walter Florell ("the mood at the moment is to look bold") is trimming hats with Lillian Russell-sized plumes (see cut). But he has tuned them to the 20th Century by coating them with copper, rust and gold lacquers. Other Florell eye openers: one-foot-square feather muffs; a single feather-covered glove, worn shoulder length. That was enough to get Manhattan's Murray Sears, big U.S. feather merchant, to book passage to South Africa last week to buy up all the fine feathers...
Another report was that the Hungarians were more interested in exchanging Vogeler for $82 million worth of Hungarian assets, mainly machine tools, copper wire and other items looted by the Nazis, and now stored in the U.S. zone in Germany...
...National Production Authority last week put pencils on its defense priority list. Under the new Controlled Materials Plan (TIME, April 23), pencil manufacturers will now get enough copper to make the brass they need to fasten erasers to pencil tops. Exulted Eagle Pencil Co.'s Sales Manager David E. Price: "It's taken the years since the war to convince the Government that nothing starts without pencils...