Word: duco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experimental paintings and two large murals which proved beyond any doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless...
...color prizes and done some portraits when he was a Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...
...spraying one color over another. His specialties are mist, clouds and transparent effects. For difficult objects such as ships he uses stencils to draw the outlines; faces, houses, bridges, trees he sprays offhand. Top price for a Lawrence so far: $25. Last week the Pontiac publicity department took up Duco Artist Lawrence, as a well-turned favor to the du Ponts who make Duco and own almost a quarter of General Motors, which owns Pontiac...
...uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean oil Mr. McCarroll's assistants make lacquer for Ford motor cars. They claim that soy bean lacquer is better than du Font's Duco. From meal which remains after oil is extracted from soy beans, Ford chemists make plastic parts for car bodies. Chemists are now working on bodies made of laminated sheet steel and soy bean plastic. All the equipment needed to process soy beans at a profit fits into an ordinary barn...
...company with its infinite side lines (Fabrikoid, Duco, Cellophane, Rayon, etc., etc.) has made much more money since the War than when it was providing smokeless powder to all the Allies. Military and sporting explosives now rank tenth among the company's money-making enterprises...