Word: varnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville Varnish Co., a Democratic letter-writer almost as assiduous as National Chairman Jim Farley, wrote the latter saying: ". . . Get busy on some sort of a plan to get the Roosevelt philosophy to the traveling men and salesmen of the country." Most of Louisville Varnish's sales men, said Colonel Callahan, had become infected by the anti-Roosevelt feeling they encounter everywhere among their customers. "This " . . reactionary line of thinking is thrown into our salesmen five or six times every day and it is having its effect. . . . Salesmen, as you know, do a great...
...William Forest Patrick of Portland, Ore. had a heretical hunch that nature provides for the newborn. In 1931 he let nature take its course, left the original oily "varnish" on several babies, neither washed nor greased them for two weeks. He found them free from all skin infections. Last week, the Multnomah County (Ore.) Hospital announced that it had employed the "Patrick method" for three years, found only two cases of pyodermia among 1,916 unwashed, unanointed babies. Each day clothes were changed and buttocks washed with warm water, but beyond this the infants were not handled...
...delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
Last week Toledo's Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. was going ahead with plans to manufacture and market Iceolite, at a price of $2.50 per sq. ft. A rink 100 ft. by 50 would thus cost $12,500, but would last a long time. Scratches and shavings cut by skate blades could be melted back smoothly into the rink's surface with flat irons (see cut). The irons would also be used to meld the cracks between the blocks after they are laid down. Liquid Iceolite is poured into molds, congeals into blocks...
Violin makers, even chemists and acoustical engineers, have taken Stradivari's instruments apart to see what makes them so good. One theory is that the unusually lustrous and transparent varnish Stradivari used had something to do with the Strad tone. But Antonio Stradivari's secret, like his grave, is still undiscovered. Where those bones are today, and what makes a Strad a Strad, nobody knows...