Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when "Grandpa" carves a 40-pound turkey-the fun really begins. Seated by the tree, and giving advice on horn-blowing technique to the jumping urchins, the President and the family attack the gift piles with cries of genuine or simulated delight, get lost in the billows of wrapping paper, like many another American family...
...Eight railroads (five use the new Terminal station, only three the Union station rebuilt in 1871); seven airline routes (33 planes daily); 75 trucking lines; 845 factories (textiles, chemicals, fertilizer, furniture, paper, candy); 3,833 retail stores, 809 wholesale stores (annual net sales: $465,316,000); 81 public schools, 33 universities and colleges (total enrollment: 77,282); the South's busiest telephone exchange (636,000 long distance calls per month); 2,500 branches of national firms doing business in the South; a 221-square-mile "metropolitan" area, whose heart and centre is famed Five Points (where Peachtree intersects four...
...fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon a screen. The Shoescope is a great attraction in Chicago churches, in which "Shoe" shows it about once a week. A prime favorite is Shoemaker...
...first and only piece appeared in the Post, Heywood Broun lay unconscious under an oxygen tent. A priest had administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. This week Heywood Broun was dead. An oldtime newspaperman, attached to an evening paper, he would have been glad to know that he died in time for the afternoon editions...
World-Famous Paintings needed 250,000 gallons of milk (for casein) to make the coated paper on which it is printed. Some of its time-tried favorites: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus, The Laughing Cavalier, Shoeing the Baby Mare, The Angelus, Mrs. Siddons, The Music Lesson, The Blue Boy, Whistler's Mother. Editor Kent was allowed no say in deciding which pictures were to be used. Says he: "Had the selection of pictures been left to me it would have come to include many that are now in the volume. And with what vindictive fury...