Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fogg for inspection with complete data on its history of being stolen from a European collection and smuggled into the country. It was certified by two German and one French expert, but preliminary examination by Stout's department showed immediately that all was not right. When the glue was finally tested, it was quickly seen that the picture could not possibly have been painted before 1820. The owner was informed quietly of the true situation and the picture returned...
...that the Battle of the Pacific had cut them off for a long time from Java-grown tapioca. But the Department of Agriculture last week announced an understudy for tapioca, a new type of waxy corn developed by their plant breeders. Much relieved were industries which use tapioca for glue, and the Post Office Department, which uses it as a stamp adhesive...
Serigraph, or Silk-Screen Print (TIME, Nov. 11, 1940), printed through a stencil which has been built up with glue or lacquer on a semitransparent silk screen. Pigment, oozing through the silk, creates a meshlike, colorful surface...
...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...
Technological Revolution. Unlike soldering, welding does not consist merely of sticking two objects together with metal glue. Instead it fuses them into one piece, almost as if they were recast. The village blacksmith did a crude form of welding when he heated two iron rods to the melting point and hammered them together till they fused, but modern welding is a much more efficient operation...