Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber manufacturers, who use nearly two-thirds of the world's production, would have been more alarmed than they were last week had they not considered these three facts: 1) the pact has yet to be approved by the governments of the eight contracting parties: 2 ) a panel of U. S. and European rubber users will be invited to consult with the international regulating committee; 3) the British Rubber Growers Association, the power behind the pact, issued a statement declaring that "whatever its temporary attractions, an excessive price would not be for the permanent welfare of the industry...
...candle flickered, there was a shriek of torn wood that echoed through the 13th Century choir, and a dark shape hunched through a side door of the Cathedral of St. Bavon. Ghent and its canals slept on. Next morning it woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted...
...scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals. A picture of a clock stopped at 9 o'clock referred to the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti...
During his first week in Dublin Minister McDowell read that some 15% of the winners in the great Irish Sweepstakes drawing for the Grand National Steeplechase were U. S. residents. He found time to watch a drawing from the huge yellow mixing drum under a wall-long panel of racing thoroughbreds, the nurses from the hospitals the Sweepstakes subsidizes pouring bags of counterfoils into the drum...
...mystery drama at the Plymouth this week is singularly lacking in all the conventional trappings; no gorillas carrying swooning, half-naked females shamble across the stage; not once does a mysterious hand stretch out from the secret panel and grasp its unsuspecting victim; the lights are never suddenly doused and there are no trap doors, hidden staircases, or ghostly signals...