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Figures released last week indicated that more than 84,000,000 gal. of denatured alcohol were used industrially in the U. S. last year. Biggest consumers were manufacturers of lacquers, lacquer thinner, solvents (12,583,943 gal.). In the manufacture of nitrocellulose 10,461,860 gal. were used. More than 9,000,000 gal: went into vinegar, more than 7,000,000 gal. into ethyl acetate (necessary for dye-stuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spoiled Eggs & Garlic | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed Berlin archeologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persia on Parade | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...view last week far too much for any one brain to appreciate at a single view: six Rembrandt portraits and eight drawings; five Goyas; eight Monets; 20 Courbets; nine Corots (all figure paintings) ; eleven Manets; five Cezannes; 22 Chinese paintings; 820 Japanese prints; 247 pieces of Japanese lacquer; 182 European prints and etchings?critics grew dizzy, ran out of adjectives. What was obvious to everyone was that this collection for all its beauty and value did not represent, like the Morgan and Widener collections or the Huntington collection in California, the purchases of an intelligent man obediently following the advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great Bequest | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Pratt & Lambert, Inc. ("61" floor varnish, "Vitralite" enamel, "Vitroloid" lacquer): $1,251,000 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...LACQUER LADY-F. Tennyson Jesse-Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Mandalay | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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