Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works of art is in the hands of the Communist Fifth Regiment. Its work is not limited to protecting known works in churches, museums and public buildings. Daily the homes of aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers are raided, the zealous comrades proudly hustling cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been bombed by insurgent planes, all of its treasures have been saved. They were moved first to the basement, then to the vaults of the Bank of Spain, finally to Valencia. One of the last pictures to leave...
...decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that a plaster cast of a hand can be made to give accurate and serviceable fingerprints...
...develop his well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract national attention were done for Manhattan's New School for Social Research. He paints on panels of prepared gesso (a wash of thin plaster) in tempera, mixing his dry hand-ground pigments with the yolks of eggs...
Certainteed is the third largest U. S. manufacturer and distributor of gypsum products, chief of which are ordinary wall plaster and wallboard. Its name was derived in 1917 from a trade-mark for the asphalt roofing which was its original product and is still its mainstay. Its weakness was a result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden...
...collection of sheep horns, plaster relief maps, Indian blankets, rock specimens, framed photographs, stuffed animals, miners' picks and other objects assembled during the past 20 years, the Yosemite National Park Museum owes its present attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most...