Word: paints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatic notes with the Führer-the kind of thing that gets published after war begins in a British Blue Book, a German White Book. Each note was carried ceremoniously in diplomatic cars, and each time the Rhine was traversed on a perky little ferry smelling of fresh paint. Journalists in the two hotels could not telephone directly to each other, as all lines were reserved for officials, so they called London for news from the correspondent at the other hotel. Cracked owlish German wits: "It is the Watch on the Rhine." Rhinelanders gathered on both banks to watch...
Architecture, Banking, 4 each; Advertising, Astronomy, Certified Accountant, Biological Research, Electrical Communications, History, Museum Work, Sociologist, 2 each; Army Officer, Stage Design, Furniture Design, Engineering, Astrophysics, Accountant, Cotton, Paint, Shipping, Broker, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Dentistry, Dramatics, Forestry, Mathematics, Orchestra Conductor, Radio, Oil Geology, Oil Industry, Meteorology, 1 each...
Besides teaching members how to be good unionists and how to think about economic problems, I. L. G. W. U.'s education department gives them lectures on sex and marriage, shows them how to paint, takes them sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...
Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...Flushing, L. I. white children, left while their mothers shop, get a chance to paint murals. Of the total attendance at community centres, more than half is composed of children and adults who actively participate in workshops and classes in local crafts such as Spanish-colonial woodcarving and embroidery in New Mexico. The Project has sent the centres 226 traveling exhibitions...