Word: plasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, Manhattan and Binghamton, N. Y. last week the Government quietly collared ten people who, it charged, had set out to plaster the country with $2,000,000 worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have...
...Medicine. Sole medical subject in the show was medical in name only-Vitamins, a composition of a lemon, oranges, a grapefruit, potatoes, filled whiskey and milk bottles, by Club Secretary Dr. Henry Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf. The latter he called a "glyptogram." Dr. Frank H. Netter had a courteous portrait of Dr. Charles Norris, New York's Chief Medical Examiner. Opthalmologist Percy Fridenberg, club president...
...ducked. The 25 stalwarts leaped to their feet. Bang, bang! Tejeda turned, sprinted for cover. The 25 turned with him. sprinted into the line of fire. Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster wall beside Tejeda who ducked back. Shouting, running, stopping and fir ing, the 100 "regulars" came on in fierce pursuit. But always a dodging, criss crossing screen of men ran between them and Tejeda. The town of Nicolas Romero was suddenly the field for a sinister football game. Tejeda...
...this housing plan, there are one or two things which may have slipped even the nimble brains of the Party, First, will not the purchase of tenement land reduce the taxable area of the municipal government, causing it either to sustain a further loss on the investment or to plaster another burden on the rich and near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum-dwellers...
...week workmen wheeled a fleet of wheelbarrows into the RCA Building lobby, set a movable scaffold against the wall. It was no trick to get off the covering coat of cream-colored canvas. But Rivera's mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat of plaster on the scarified...