Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wondered where union jurisdiction ended and private rights began was 65-year-old Alfred McEnhill. Because he had rented space in his house to an insurance agency, Local 22 of the A.F.L. Painters & Decorators decided that it had become an office building, ordered him to stop touching up the paint on his window sashes until he joined the union. Said New York's violently pro-labor PM: "The union should have its collective head examined...
From time to time he noted defects-park grass which needed cutting or a building which needed paint-and scribbled manifestoes on a pad at his side. But the city boasted amazingly clean streets, dozens of parks and playgrounds, fine schools, libraries, one of the finest zoos in the U.S., a fairgrounds, an E. H. Crump Stadium, good hospitals, good health...
...Something never done for Oliver Cromwell, who said to Painter Peter Lely in 1650: "I desire you will use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me ... warts and everything...
...pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom's "schoolhouse-brown" paint. Last week New York's public school system, which adopted pastel shades in 1943, announced a sixth tested classroom color combination: peach and rose...
Throughout the country more & more schools are applying what paint ads flossily call "the principles of color dynamics." According to one paint publicist, Joseph C. Thompson of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., "colored surfaces [in] flat, satin, or eggshell finishes . . . medium to light in value [will eliminate the] excessive brightness of the white, and the eye-strain and feeling of monotony induced by too dark colors...