Word: oilcloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into the air, strike the screen, fall into the tank. Turkeys are known to be great eaters of grasshoppers but the Department of Agriculture declared last week that even if all the turkeys in the U. S. were concentrated in North...
...field of after-dinner entertainment, was a prosperous engineer. When he lost his job and his money in 1930, he got along by selling gadgets, doing odd jobs like mending furniture and building his friends' fishponds in the Philadelphia suburbs. The first Monopoly board was a bit of oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur parlor-game...
Prizewinner Ward is a professional advertising artist. The idea for the composition came to him while watching his own son reading at home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
Last year U. S. manufacturers consumed 91,166,000 lb. of soybean oil, of which 2,550,000 lb. went into soaps, 4,800,000 lb. into linoleum and oilcloth, 13,000,000 lb. into paints and varnishes...