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Work on the building, a former private home, was begun early in March, and with the help of a group of Cambridge women and faculty wives who canvassed homes, the house has now been furnished to a practical point of occupancy, although tenants must being their own linen...
...many other possibilities. The stalk contains 10-20% of a fiber that is superior to cotton and linen intensile strength, second only to Manila hemp. In addition, milkweed seed contains 21% of a semi-drying oil almost identical with soybean oil, and the oil-free seed cake is a valuable livestock feed with 40% protein content...
...state of the nation's trade. In one day 2,841 buyers stormed the New York Furniture Exchange, more than at any other time in its 52-year history and 1,000 above last year's registration. The combined New York Curtain & Drapery and National Domestics & Linen Shows hung up a new record with 575 buyers pawing for goods regardless of prices. Sixth Avenue manufacturers reported spring dress, suit and coat orders up 40-200%, talked darkly of allocating production to cut down order-padding. One excited OPA economist predicted to the Millinery Merchandising Executives' Association that...
...hands as we do today but used just enough water from an old basin to lubricate them. There was no anesthesia. The physiology table used for animal demonstrations was his operating table. Mott would put the scalpel in his mouth and possibly several strands of waxed silk or linen. His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean. The instruments he used were taken out of a mahogany box, the old Civil War carrying...
Winston Churchill reached for a towel after shaving. There was no towel. On board a British destroyer in the North Sea, his face and fingers dripping, he fumbled about in a linen closet in the captain's cabin and dried his face with the first available cloth. It turned out to be a British ensign, and is now hanging in C-33, Kirkland House, in the room of David E. Mann...