Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh shudders went up the spine of Cleveland, Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland...
...worth more than those of certain Mexican issues." The gold and silver reserves of the Bank of Mexico were used up last spring trying to keep the Mexican peso worth 28? . It has now crashed to 20? . Mexicans last week tried to find takers who would accept 210 paper pesos in exchange for one 50-peso silver coin...
...bright orange mustache, John Millard Ferren, 33, started as a sculptor in 1926. He learned plaster casting in a Los Angeles plaster factory, tombstone cutting in San Francisco. As aids to the problems he was trying to work out in stone, he found himself covering sheets of paper with abstract drawings. In 1930 he began to paint, in 1931 worked his way to Paris, where he found a market for abstractions. He has stayed close to his market ever since...
...Macy, James McCutcheon and James McCreery, Manhattan department stores, agreed to stop advertising as "silk" products which were not. Colt Shoes, Boston, promised to qualify the statement that Colt shoes are hand-lasted and keep feet healthy. Letellier-Phillips Paper Co. of New Orleans, the South's wastepaper dictator whose small competitors tattled, was ordered to cease and desist from maintaining a monopoly by intimidation and boycott of competitors...
...casein content, has soured, the curd (crude casein) is separated from the whey; the curd is then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine and wall paper), paint and glue manufacturers (12% each) and the plastic industry...