Word: lathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better to Be Alone. The room was a space just 30 inches wide, five feet long and nine feet high. The wall the police broke through was an amateur's job of lath and inch-thick cement. Half-inch ventilation holes were drilled through another wall into a hallway. The only other opening was a hole six by eight inches in the chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room...
Guilty. In New York courts last week, two skimmers of the land's fat got the bill. Grey Marketeer and Lawyer Isadore Ginsberg (TIME, Jan. 26) was convicted of grand larceny (for accepting $1,575 for a carload of rock lath that he never delivered). Gus Fusaro, $50-a-week financial district elevator man who played the market for his friends and lost $250,000 of their money, was convicted of grand larceny and operating a bucket shop...
...days later it ordered 37 brickmakers to stop using the multiple basing point system, and broadcast a warning to all users-steel, farm machinery, chemicals, etc.-to cut it out. FTC said that it would proceed with suits and complaints now on file against such industries as steel, metal lath and conduits...
...sniffing for the scent of a grey market in building materials. All over the country, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, vice chairman of the pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities of lath, presumably kept it out of normal channels...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...