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...From milk. Chemist Paul D. Watson of the Department of Agriculture has developed a lacquer excellently suited to cans of evaporated and condensed milk (largest canned food) and for large milk-shipping cans. It is made of lactic acid (from fermented whey) plus small amounts of vegetable...
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...
...Cosmetic dealers, bound by no food & drug act, were selling boot polish as mascara, commercial lacquer as nail varnish, powdered paint as rouge...
...unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent sheen of their plumage. Painted in thin oil paint on specially processed illustration board, the portraits glowed like old Chinese lacquer...
Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers...