Word: linoleum
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...importance is rated at .07 of 1%. The chewing gum industry's output is twice as valuable as silver mining. Silver though supported, productionwise is only as important as grape jelly, or wire nails, or packers' prime tallow, or anhydrous ammonia. Silver is less important than linoleum, glue, leather gloves, strawberries, spaghetti, nuts...
Centrepiece of a National Home Show which opened in Louisville last week was a low, rambling white house built inside Jefferson County Armory in five working days, complete with garden, fireplace, tangerine linoleum, taffeta bedspreads and soap in the soap dishes...
...headlines, which were to be hand-lettered, will be printed, "giving the paper a neater appearance." The size of the columns has been increased and the editorial column widened. Inexpensive linoleum cuts will be used in place of line drawings...
...jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General...
...wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...