Word: scissor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stop New York (Gaumont British) shows what the transatlantic airliner of the apparently near future may be like. "A" deck will have spacious cabins with wardrobes big enough for blonde stowaways like Anna Lee to hide in, "hurricane" decks from which trapped villains may escape, providing scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will...
...London's New Burlington Galleries, surrealist artists from 14 countries held their first British exhibition. Londoners gaped at The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child...
...woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most of the editorial work of rewriting the contents into brief paragraphs in the Bulletin, distributed to all Government officials who ask for it. Beside each item in the Bulletin is a record of its source...
Well could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...
...scissor business is bad because Depression has brought the cost of finished dresses so low that little home dressmaking is done. Big scissor years were 1928 and 1929. People who then would pay $1 or $1.25 for scissors now want them for 49? retail. Big dressmaking companies use cutting machines, not scissors. Manicuring scissors remain in steady demand, but buttonhole scissors are becoming obsolete and cheap German iron (not steel) scissors imported for sale at 29? harmed the U. S. scissor business. Scissors in 5? & 10? stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast...