Word: linoleum
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...short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass, tin, linoleum. Some bore the slogan: "Roosevelt for President...
...last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk...
...woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when she was defeated in the Olympics. Last week, fencing for the U. S. indoor title for the first time, she had won all her previous bouts with almost ridiculous ease. The two women stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss...
...strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings into which Federal dollars were to be invested. The work need not be limited to murals. Easel paintings, statues, friezes, memorial tablets, prints, drinking fountains, even such a utilitarian idea as a new design for linoleum is permissible. Regional committees were appointed whose jobs would be to select artists actually in need, choose the buildings to receive their attentions, commission, inspect and approve preliminary sketches. The regional committee chairmen appointed last week were...
...make a fingerpainting a large sheet of wet glazed paper is spread flat on a marble or linoleum-covered table and big blobs of colorful sludge dropped on it. This is sloshed about with both hands, the finger nails, even the elbows, without conscious effort at drawing, until the amateur artist likes the result. The teacher is then called and the work given a name-"A Greedy Horse with a Long Neck," "Men Fishing Before They Are Drowned"-and the picture, the table and the child set aside to dry. Inventor Shaw is extremely proud of the fact that after...