Word: shellac
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...that inquisitive boy," a nuisance to his aunts. 'He probably proceeded into chemistry instead of some other science because his older brother, who was studying chemistry, answered questions, helped him equip a child's chemistry laboratory. That older brother is now Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, shellac & glycerine expert, donor of the $1,000 Langmuir prize for precocity in chemistry...
Also this year for the first time Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, rich Hastings-on-Hudson authority & manufacturer of shellac and glycerine, elder brother and early teacher of General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir, offered a $1,000 prize for "accomplishment, in America, of outstanding chemical research by a young man or woman preferably working in a college or university." Caltech's young Professor Pauling is the first Langmuir Prize winner...
...utilizing Czechoslovakia's especially rich deposits. Before the Institute scientists can fill an order, they must dig up their mammoth, clean the bones thoroughly, wash them in a solution of chloric acid and water. When the bones are dry, they must treat them with glue, coat them with shellac. The price of a complete mammoth is $30,000 f. o. b. Czechoslovakia...
...Earth were scaled down to the size of an ordinary library globe, the height to which man has ascended from it (43,166 ft.) would about equal the coating of shellac on the sphere. The greatest depth to which he has descended would about equal the thickness of the map paper. On the water-covered portion (7/10) he would have penetrated only a fractional part of the paper...
...Springfield, Mass., District Court last week, one Thomas McGregor announced that he had been drunk for the full six months of a term he had just served in Hampden County Jail. He said he drank the denatured alcohol used for shellac in the prison workshop...