Word: linoleum
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...when asked about him. The record includes a chairmanship of the promenade committee, four years as a football centre. After working for an insurance company and then an importing concern, Mr. Hoving entered Macy's "training school" in 1924. Once he was asked to make a report on linoleum for a vice president and did so well he became the executive's assistant. He refers to this with studied modesty: "I made a few suggestions and became his assistant...
...linoleum floors are laid with "battleship" linoleum 1-4 inch thick, and the colors have been carefully selected to harmonize with the two tones of the walls and ceilings. The laboratories, research rooms, and offices have made use of this type of flooring, which combines utility and beauty.THE NEW HOME OF THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, located on Divinity Avenue, between the Farlow Library and Semitic Museum...
Died. Professor Walter Francis Reid, 81, inventor of smokeless powder, onetime (1910) president of the Society of Chemical Industry, research chemist (linoleum, cement, silver on backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist...
Congoleum was formed as Congoleum Co. in 1916. Its chief backer and first vice president was Alfred William Erickson. Up & down Europe it met fierce competition from Sir Michael Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto...
...galleries of the College Art Association in New York to see an exhibition of student work from 26 U. S. colleges, universities, museum schools. It was not overinspiring. From New Hampshire to Texas, the student body of the U. S. presented anatomical drawings, studies in perspective, hand-dyed batiks, linoleum cuts, designs for football stadia and perfume bottles "according to the laws of dynamic symmetry," and a number of paintings in oil. Critics were most interested in the exhibit from Yale. Prominent on the faculty of the Yale Department of Fine Arts is kinetic Eugene Francis Savage, Leffingwell Professor...