Word: varnishers
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Among the problems illustrated are the restoration of damaged and repainted pictures, the cleaning off of layers of opaque varnish, and the study by means of the prints of the X-ray shadowgraph of not only the condition of a painting but also of the technique of old masters...
...Protestant is Dr. High. Its Jew is Mrs. Estelle Sternberger, dynamic director of World Peaceways. Its Catholic is that voluble Louisville, Ky. varnish maker, Col. Patrick Henry Callahan. As their first joint achievement last week, Good Neighbors High, Sternberger and Callahan produced an eminent anticlimax by announcing that the Good Neighbor League is for President Roosevelt...
...Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...
Egloff: Increased maintenance cost will result from cylinder and valve wear, all-around corrosion, plugging fuel lines and dissolving of car varnish...
...Jersey manufacturer, was red oak and maple impregnated thoroughly and uniformly in pressure tanks with ammonium salts which, when hot, release combustion-smothering gases. The treated wood is almost as easily tooled as ordinary wood, a little heavier because of the salt content, no different in appearance. It takes varnish well. The Board's testers created conflagration conditions in large chambers fired by gas nozzles, watched through windows. Under conditions that sent untreated walls and floors roaring up in flames, the treated wood did not burn at all. When exposed to intense heat for long periods, the processed...