Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many houses damaged, none was killed, none injured. Fascist engineers were proud, for modern Bari is their handiwork. They have converted a small sleepy fishing village into a great modern port (rival of Brindisi), laid out broad avenues and block after block of modern sanitary dwellings which with cracked plaster and sprung roofs were still safely standing last week...
Last week Bob Davis (the only name he recognizes) lay on his back in Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital recovering from leg injuries incurred on a fishing trip with his special crony Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. His right ankle encased in an elephantine plaster cast (which he at once began making into an autograph album). Bob Davis received callers. Among the earliest arrivals was Fannie Hurst. When she departed, she sent 25 telegrams. In 48 hours arrived a score of manuscripts from famed authors. Soon the Sun's readers found on the editorial page, "Fannie Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb...
...Queen Nefertiti which was more precious to Egyptians than tons of jeweled bric-a-brac. First, it was supposed to possess magical properties. Second, it was pronounced by worldwide experts to be among the loveliest creations of the ancient dynasties. For a few dollars, the Berlin museum supplied plaster reproductions (colored) to all who asked. Innumerable Egyptians became enraged, challenged Germany's right to possession, hotly attacked Archaeologist Borchardt. The debate continued until last week, when Egyptian ire was cooled by Ger many's decision to return Queen Nefertiti to her native land, to accept several other rarities...
...paid him $400 a week, were getting $1,000 when they lent him to other companies, he quit work and went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece of plaster blown from a dynamited church. He is fat, witty, a brilliant organizer. Some of his pictures: The Garden of Eden, The Racket, The Betrayal...
...search for means to utilize waste material. "Bagasse," the refuse material left after the sap has been removed from sugar cane, used to present a problem because it was expensive to dispose of. This is now being made into board called Celotex, which is used as the plaster base and insulator. Reversing the old order, sugar is now the by-product in some places where cane is planted to yield the board material. Cornstalks are used to produce paper and a kind of lumber, "Maizewood"' (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw, virtually valueless as a fertilizer. has always been...