Word: varnish
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...Army and Navy stop making uniforms, paints, varnish, saddles, etc. in their shops...
Manufacturers of binoculars, rope, paint, varnish, furniture, mattresses, hammocks, Diesel engines and fire extinguishers told how the Navy was making these same articles for the fleet at increased costs to the taxpayer. That the Government Printing Office should manufacture ink, paste and mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine...
...that an etcher who did not print his own plates was not an artist but a manufacturer. The collector sees but half the beauty in a Whistler etching until he realizes how elegant Jimmy deepened his blacks by rebiting with stronger acid, lightened unnecessary lines by brushing them with varnish...
...cast, and in the end marries the princess, as dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...
Institute of Paint & Varnish Research.Sc.D. Edwin Fitch Northrup, vice president...