Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that most of the persons in that vicinity had in the past eaten the products of this company, and according to the Jewish dietary laws, there is a grave question as to whether the dishes that were used while eating these products would continue to be kosher. . . . HARRY SAND...
...audience. An admirer of Lenin, he predicted that the Reds would oversweep all Europe. He denounced the Versailles Treaty as a breeder of war hates, flayed the Polish Corridor settlement, warned of an early end to Reparations. Said Bill Bullitt: "I am going to the Riviera, lie on the sand, kick my heels in the air and let the world go to hell...
...English magazines less than ten days old, bedrooms with electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester or in front of your next-door garage-except that it stands there in the sand, in the midst of nothingness, in the almost exact geographical centre of the Sahara, stuck there like a pictorial infantile idea of the North Pole, the most lonely and isolated gasoline pump in the world or the universe...
...landing anywhere nearer a desired destination than "baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture in the distant mountains, carry a thin stream of water some 30 ft. under the baking sand. These conduits, bored through the clay subsoil by no one knows whom, have to be cleared periodically and for this have manholes 50 ft. apart. Seabrook went down one of these fougaras and crawled painfully a quarter-mile, was glad to emerge muddily into sunlight again. Seabrook called...
...River Rouge plant, populated by Rivera's chunky, concentrated figures. Others showed a pharmaceutical factory (Parke, Davis & Co.), airplane welders, poison gas workers, topped in huge scale by females representing the raw materials of Detroit's industries: a white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall, showing a child being vaccinated in a serum laboratory. In the foreground were serum-giving animals, a horse...