Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing before it, and looking through it at the light, Artist Nicolas is then ready to do his painting. Covering the glass first with an opaque coat of copper-oxide pigment, he draws in the highlights and flowing lines of his figures by brushing away the pigment and letting the light shine through again. When he is through, the puzzle picture is carefully scrambled again, sent to bake in a kiln until each stroke of pigment left on the glass is melted permanently into the pane. The panes are then reassembled, fixed permanently in place with strips of lead...
...seemed an excellent start. As Britain's envoy it would be his privilege, if he wished, to stay in the Viceroy's elephantine palace in New Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious...
...import and export business in Nicaragua, and I have noticed in TIME the shortage that there is in the United States of rubber, scrap steel, aluminum, brass, copper, etc. There are hundreds of commodities that we are unable to import from your country, such as steel bars, tires, copper wire...
...tape with so many forms and papers to fill." Another firm of Los Angeles, Calif, wrote recently:. "We cannot ship lavatories nor any other sanitary goods as we are unable to obtain allocation for the material required for brass fittings." I offered to ship brass and copper scrap, but they answered that they could not use it as they would have to go through such red tape that it would take years before being through...
...fast vanishing from 10?-store counters as stocks of imitation pearls, rhinestones and cut glass, imported mainly from Czecho-Slovakia, ran low. Today the only practicable metal the $50,000,000 costume jewelry industry can get is costly sterling silver. Even sterling is in danger: it contains 7.5% copper...