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Scholars had long felt sure that the Meditation was Carpaccio's, but it took microchemical tests to prove it. Beneath three layers of varnish, the Met's experts came across some 16th Century skullduggery. A forged Mantegna signature had been added with the innermost layer...
...story was an Italian army doctor who treated Mussolini's ulcers, heard him complain: "The Italian people is a superficial people in every way, even in religion. They believe in a saint only when, and to the extent that he answers their prayers. . . . They cover themselves with a varnish that has no depth and leaves no trace...
...series of punches and dies which work the metal into cylindrical shape. The open end is trimmed or tapered, the base machined to shape. Between draws, which harden the steel, the cartridge case must be annealed. To protect it from corrosion and sparking it must also be varnish-sprayed and baked...
...ninth Chemurgic Conference of Agriculture, Industry and Science, meeting in Chicago last fortnight, changed its outlook without blinking. The veteran farm crusaders were absent or silent. Research men from major industries-rubber, alcohol, paints and varnish, plastics-dominated the scene with talk of shortages, grim calculations. Hopes were stirred by such performances as that of the soybean industry, a recent problem child of chemurgy, which now crushes ten million bushels of beans monthly, expects a crop of 175 million bushels in 1943 and the export of a billion pounds of soy flour and grits under Lend-Lease...
Dehydrated castor oil is the best available substitute for tung oil, formerly imported from China for use in inks, paint, varnish, linoleum, lubricants, etc. But" U.S. tung production is growing too. Orchards of tung-nut trees now cover 250,000 acres, scattered from South Carolina to Texas (most are in Mississippi). They have produced 5,000,000 Ib. of oil a year, may double that figure in 1942. But the trees do not produce until after their fourth year, so no quick increase is possible. At least 150,000,000 lb. yearly are needed...