Word: porcelain
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...plywood a year, plywood sales have increased 20% faster than even those of the booming aluminum industry in the past 15 years. Manufacturers have also pioneered a host of new products, from low-priced particle board, made of chips and shavings, to weatherproof, plastic-coated plywood and porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags...
...eight-course meal (including caviar, crabmeat, mushrooms, capers and sturgeon), rose repeatedly to respond to vodka toasts. Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying the pleasures of the table...
...Sugiura needed no airplane. Last November, just a few days after Japanese meteorologists detected air disturbances from Soviet tests in Siberia, he set two large porcelain dishes filled with water in the yard behind his Tokyo laboratory and let dust settle into them for 24 hours. He evaporated the water and got from each square meter 150 milligrams (.005 oz.) of dust. Most of it was ordinary dirt from Tokyo's grimy atmosphere, but the remainder was highly radioactive, and could be analyzed...
...comforts of home, but in the provinces tourists should be prepared for hard beds, little heat and no inside plumbing. Japanese food is generally heartier than Chinese cooking, with tender steaks and sizzling sukiyaki, a thin-sliced beef dish cooked at tableside. Things to buy: tortoise shell, pearls, lacquerware, porcelain, embroidered kimonos, art, furs, cameras, binoculars...
...Texas, rode horseback mail routes in Colorado, wound up heading the glass and china department of a Detroit department store. In 1879, when he was 24, Rosenthal returned to Germany to buy china. Instead, he bought a castle near Selb, in the heart of North Bavaria's famed porcelain country, and started turning out decorated chinaware. By 1934, when he was banished by the Nazis, Rosenthal had 5,000 employees and ten companies...