Word: plastering
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...loan, if she promised to give it back the moment it was needed? The reply she got from Washington, "apparently written by one of Mr. Nelson's secretaries," counseled patience and looked forward to the postwar world. She wrote again, got more advice. Her young man of plaster (with hands held determinedly behind him), she decided, should be titled: The New Deal...
Rolled Roast. In Great Falls, Mont., the Andrew Cowans prepared to enjoy a 47-ration-point pot roast that Cowan had helped prepare, presently found that even the gravy was tough, at length discovered he had innocently rolled it in plaster of Paris...
...Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...
...waste product (sugar cane stalks after the juice is squeezed out) and sold these boards to a building industry which knew little about heat insulation. A sugar famine and 1929 put Celotex into receivership. Reorganized under Dahlberg, Celotex acquired control of Certainteed Products Corp. (roofing, gypsum, plaster), began to merchandise many of the products required to build a house. Celotex makes Cemesto-a waterproof, fire-resistant building material 1½ inches thick, made of an inner core of Celotex faced with an asbestos cement-and with Cemesto hopes to mass-produce future U.S. housing...
...north, where great forces massed on both sides of the front last week, a successful drive to clean the Germans out of the Leningrad area would open the way to the Baltic States. If it succeeded, this operation would enable the Russian Air Force to plaster eastern Germany as heavily as the Rhineland was being punished by the R.A.F...