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...resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000, referring to the thousands of insects in a colony). Indian natives scrape the lac off the twigs, heat it in cloth bags, strain off the melted shellac. The final product is a flaky substance that dissolves readily in alcohol and, when spread on a surface, dries quickly to a hard, tough coat...
Second Team. Worse luck for the Jap was his inability to scrape together enough air strength at any one place to stop the" Allied air power that kept hitting him in every spot. Last week, when Lieut. General George Kenney decided to force a showdown for air control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will...
...from a mere $3,600,000 in 1939 to an estimated $650,000,000 for this year. This geometric expansion during a period of high income and excess-profits taxes has of necessity occurred without a corresponding increase in working capital. Like other U.S. aircraft companies, Consolidated can only scrape together enough cash to meet its payroll for two to three weeks at a time...
...Henderson devoted himself: 1) to Havana, Mexico and California, 2) to restoring his bridge reputation as "the best goddam no-trump player in the world," 3) to blocking traffic in such cities of narrow streets as Acapulco by strolling down them in an enormous Mexican sombrero and multicolored fringed scrape, followed by from 20 to 30 small boys, to whom he would occasionally toss a handful of centavos. The four months totally cured his acute case of Washingtonitis...
...ever a magazine was not born with a silver spoon in its mouth, that magazine is TIME. In the whole U.S. in 1923 we could not find enough faith in the newsmagazine idea to scrape together even $100,000 working capital. The editor remembers the first office as "chaos-but not even very much of that." The editorial budget for the whole first year was only about half what our editors spend every week now. And even when TIME was three years old its continued existence was still so touch-and-go that one week late...