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...Pittsburgh last week was Augustus John who entered the week's news by finishing, after three years of hastily snatched sittings, a portrait of fox-bearded Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Between the time the face was sketched in charcoal and the final varnish was applied Governor Norman's beard changed from grey to white...
...Adding Machine Co. sent me. My feet rest on a choice "Quaker" rug that Dwight L. Armstrong. Vice President The Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly in a trick rockerless rocker Lloyd Loom Chair he sent...
...life and well-being is incalculable, they could justly figure that eleven billion dollars of industry depend upon their knowledge and activity. The diversity of their work has enforced specializing: agriculture and food chemistry, biology, medicine, cellulose, colloids, dyes, fertilizers, gas and fuel, leather and gelatin, paint and varnish, petroleum, rubber, sugar, water, sewage and sanitation...
Enforcement officials had spent $500,000, waited two years to make their new accusations. They discovered that many a manufacturer of paints, varnishes, lacquers and disinfectants sells his products to customers who have nothing to paint or varnish, nothing to disinfect. By a process of distillation these bootlegging consumers remove the denaturant elements from the goods they purchase, extract drinkable ethanol (grain alcohol). Included in the charges were manufacturers of industrial alcohol as well as those manufacturers who use the alcohol as a solvent. U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., biggest producer in the U. S.,and Glidden Co., Cleveland...
...Vick Chemical Co., one of the U. S. Big Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last as well as definitely the biggest word in U. S. cosmetics and drugs. Some one of his goods...