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...build a house without a nail in it that will go up and stay up for hundreds of years, how to make a bottle-glass window, a fieldstone grike, a folding ladder, a wooden tub, a cider press. Two ways to stack cordwood. A recipe for brown ink ("Boiled down walnut or butternut hulls that have been mashed first. Add vinegar and salt to boiling water to 'set' "). From king posts to roofing, Author Sloane details the construction of a covered bridge, which was an 1805 innovation. George Washington never...
...underestimated, or overlooked, that unassuming man in Chicago, Marshall Field. By nature cautious. Field has been moving slowly since his father's retirement in 1950 turned him into a reluctant newspaper publisher. But he has been moving steadily. Under his command, the Sun-Times shifted from red ink to black...
...went to hell." As the traveling public developed a preference for the convenience and modernity of motels, hotel occupancy rates shriveled from a nationwide average of 93% in 1946 to 62% last year. As operating costs rise for hotels, more and more are filling out their ledgers in red ink...
...sentiments, and promised to send Friedman reproductions of avant-garde paintings from America. The picture Friedman liked best, said the cops indignantly, was a "chaos of black, red and blue splotches captioned / Need You Tonight." Soon, they said, the teacher was getting messages from the U.S. written in invisible ink. Just as Friedman prepared to deliver information "very remote from theoretical arguments about abstract art," police moved in and hustled him off to jail...
...basic procedure of etching is to coat a copper plate with wax, draw on it with a needle that exposes the metal, and immerse the plate in acid, which eats away the exposed area. After removing the wax, the artist prints the plate by coating it with ink. wiping the ink from the surface, and pressing the plate against paper that draws ink out of the etched depressions by a blotting action...