Word: linoleum
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...Linoleum and oilcloth makers consume soybean oil in large amounts...
...folk art; New Hampshire has done something about it. Last week its League of Arts & Crafts put on its eighth annual fair in the hockey rink at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Attendance: 20,000. Sales: $10,000. On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizens-tatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine cones, baskets, buckwheat flour, etc. Most of it was spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers (50? a lesson). They...
...same size shirt. Some of New York City's 280 local boards deferred policemen and firemen while others did not. Some gave deferment to such "necessary" workers as the manager of a meat store, an executive of a firm making babies' bonnets, the manager of a retail linoleum store, an advertising production executive, a stylist for a textile firm. One board gave occupational deferments to an average of one in 191 registrants; another deferred one in 18. Meanwhile Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, supervisor of the New York City area, instructed his boards to consider deferments even...
...named Sparrow, attired in a linoleum dress suit, submitted himself to a barrage of swill including rotten melons, goldfish, eggs...
Last week Manhattan's Educational Alliance, a 48-year-old East Side settlement house, put on a sidewalk sale of 60 paintings, water colors, linoleum cuts by 40 of its pupils, aged 9 to 15. Priced...