Word: pyroxylin
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...attacked his job with soldierly ferocity, quick-drying pyroxylin paint and a spray gun. The mural has more force than feeling, but it is clearly in line with Siqueiros' oft-repeated theory that the right, true end of art is propaganda. His subject this time is Cuauhtémoc-the Aztec hero who tried to defend Mexico City against Cortés after the death of Montezuma. One panel shows Cuauhtémoc being tortured by the Spaniards, along with a bleeding woman and a child with its hands chopped off. Morbid? Goodness, no, said Siqueiros, "unless paintings...
...moribund business is large-scale production of compact, streamlined pianos adapted in size and style to modern apartments and retailing at about $225 up, some $100 less than the old units. No. i innovation are Wurlitzer consoles finished in "Kordevon," a cloth covered with ten coats of the plastic, pyroxylin...
...explosion in Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Products Co. which scattered burning cellulose over North Arlington, N. J., killed ten, injured 180 (TIME, June 19): indictment of North Arlington's Mayor Daniel P. Rentschler and six borough Councilmen for criminal negligence, charging they failed to enforce an ordinance prohibiting storage of inflammables without license; and indictment of Atlantic Pyroxylin's President Alexander Scheinzeit and Joseph Klitch, owner of a warehouse in which the cellulose was stored, on manslaughter charges. Klitch's wife and daughter were killed in the explosion...
...Road sat in the street and on the banks of the dirty Passaic River to watch their children play. Some of the youngsters scampered half-naked about the street, others were swimming in the river or lolling on the shore in front of a grimy brick factory where Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Co. sorted celluloid. Along River Road. Mrs. Josephine Latone pushed her way through the throng of noisy youngsters, nodding to her neighbors, jabbering at her husband, James. She turned toward him to gesticulate...
...morning last week Mr. Francis Breese Davis Jr. looked at the newspaper. In 1909 Mr. Davis was hired by the du Ponts as a civil engineer. Since then he has had one du Pont job after another: black powder, sporting powder, guncotton. smokeless powder, cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company...