Word: lacquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
...down. For want of soap, laundries all over the country had to reduce their laundering; millions of housewives did the same; wool producers (to whom soap is a major necessity) lamented: "No woolens." For want of glycerine, a by-product of animal fats, General Electric could not get the lacquer it needed to finish thousands of refrigerators. For want of industrial soap and stearic acid, all synthetic rubber production in Akron was expected to drop sharply in November, stop completely in December...
...under his hat and the dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...
From the Japanese and their puppets, the Communists took over properties roughly valued at $15,000,000, as well as some 300 kilometers of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railroad. They have reopened two flour mills, and factories making cigarets, matches, soap, porcelain, lacquer, varnish and even artificial eyes...
...skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...