Word: linoleums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artful manipulation of the price of the 213 commodities (sausages, vin rouge, coal, linoleum) that make up the official cost-of-living index, the Mollet government has succeeded in holding the index itself relatively steady while most other prices are shooting up. Should the index jump two more points (to 149.1), minimum wages for 20 million workers would automatically increase 5%, setting another inflationary spiral. Said one French economist last week: "The sea is lapping at the dike...
Mixed Emotions. In Salem, Ore., police looked for the burglar who broke into Mrs. Jeanne Hopkins' home, ripped up linoleum between the living room and the dining room, opened a can of varnish and varnished an old newspaper, made a batch of French toast in the kitchen, baked a fudge cake from a recipe on a Betty Crocker Mix box, stole a ten-inch pie plate...
...Kansas City to attend the annual Future Farmers' convention, the Chromaster clock sounded its alarm at 4:30 a.m. in his bedroom at home. Shocked to wakefulness after eight hours of sleep, Joe swung out his bare feet and reached for the mound of khaki clothes on the linoleum floor. The shirt, clammy from three days' accumulated sweat, clung dankly to him. The pants, crusted with dirt and splotched with tractor grease, slipped on over the cotton print shorts in which he had slept. The three-hook farm shoes, their sides eaten by barnyard acids, stayed untied...
...show is the "swimming-pool reactor," a working research reactor set up on the lawn outside the palace. It is housed in a building that looks like a large, windowless Swiss chalet. Inside, from a black ceiling, beams of light slant down. On a red linoleum platform stands the reactor, a pool of crystal-clear water, faintly blue and 21 ft. deep, with control rods reaching into it. At the bottom, enveloped in blue luminescence, are the reacting uranium plates. Visitors can look down with perfect safety, and sense the atom's power...
Britain's Reginald Butler, who "has no conception of form." He then invited his entourage of sculptors to debate or just plain chat with him. When all kept respectfully silent, Epstein happily began tossing his horns. One of his gratuitous victims: famed Dutch Abstractionist Piet Mondrian, whose linoleum-like linearities have floored museum walls for two decades. Said Sir Jacob flatly: "A faker!" A museum director murmured a shocked "Oh, no!" Epstein snapped: "An open mind is an empty mind." At last, carrying a bronze medal struck in his honor, Honorary Guildsman Epstein departed, telling his troubled admirers...