Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moyne was sent with the Huguenots who settled on the South Carolina coast in 1564, and was told to map and paint what he saw. A Spanish expedition wiped out the colony within a year, but Le Moyne escaped to a French ship, with a portfolio full of fastidiously painted reports. Among them: a sunrise sacrifice of a stuffed and garlanded stag, a huddle of Indian widows mourning before their king Outina and begging permission to marry again, and an exaggerated painting of an alligator hunt which might have given Europeans the idea that dragons abounded in America...
...prices of 28 such major commodities jumped (according to an OPA estimate) an average of 7.4%. Some of the leaps were fantastic. Example: glycerin, which had been controlled at 18? a pound, jumped 12? one day, 30? the next, was up to $1 by week's end. One paint company helplessly told customers: we'll send the paint, see how much it costs later...
...Elimination of two-tone paint, nickel-trim caps on the steering-wheel crossbar. Saving: 49½? per item...
...type car wheels which take less steel and paint. Savings...
Walk-Around Art. Picasso saw no point in doing things perfectly more than once. He left the imitating to his growing army of imitators. He began painting faces, tables and guitars from every angle, interlocking his various views of them in tight, infinitely complicated and almost unrecognizable compositions. Why paint from a single viewpoint, he argued, when you have legs to walk around the model and see it from behind as well as in front...