Word: metalworking
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...sitting. Police threw tear gas bombs into the two buildings, charged with swinging batons, swung their fists, used stinging riding whips on squatters who showed fight. As the rabble army fled toward Vancouver's poor but sympathetic East End, they picked up post office inkwells and pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association. Vancouver's Mayor George Clark Mille...
...branches of art other than painting, the Metropolitan is admittedly a museum of the first rank. Its prints, casts, sculpture, bronzes, terracottas, glass, Classical, Egyptian, Far and Near Eastern art, armor, jewelry, musical instruments, European and U. S. decorative art, metalwork, costumes, textiles and laces, make it the necessary U. S. focal point of anyone seriously interested in worldwide craftsmanship. Last year's deficit of $883,384.35, due to administration expenses, reported recently by Metropolitan authorities (TIME, March 3), is an indication of the sums being spent to keep this esthetic treasury of increasing benefit to the nation...