Word: varnished
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While Mr. Bennett was making his "bone-shaped" dog food and W'heatsworth's whole-wheat crackers, the tung trees in Florida grew tall, bore fruit. A group of important paint & varnish makers, in whose business the oil is a main raw material and whose purchases of it from China are a large part of the $15,000,000 worth imported by the U. S., grew interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters...
...daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course, there is Dudley himself, the typical hail fellow well met of any mid-western Rotary Club who spends his time running prize fights, charity bazaars, and community protest meetings while his paint and varnish factory goes into the red and family difficulties come to a crisis...
Sugar was cheap all last year and housewives tried to save money by putting up their own preserves. Hence food canners bought fewer cans. Likewise there was a smaller demand for industrial containers such as varnish cans. So it was no surprise when last week American Can Co. announced 1931 earnings of $15,529,000 against...
...gentleman's janitor approached him and asked with prayerful incredulity if it were true that the larger breweries in this same middle-western city were installing new brewing machinery against the golden day when once again the workers of the land might seek and find solace in the foamy, varnish-colored beverage. Our acquaintance assured him that there was at least a modicum of truth in the report, and his janitor sighed deeply and departed...
...canvas with a wet brush in your hand and give your emotions a free rein. Surrealist Crotti is so certain of the value of his products that he rejects oil paint as too impermanent, works only in lacquer. All his colors are especially ground for him with varnish or turpentine as a base...