Word: veneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most U. S. burls come from Oregon, principally from the Willamette valley. Biggest U. S. burlman is Alfred Adam Loeb of Portland. Mr. Loeb was the first to ship burls directly to the veneer mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3,000 more are shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that...
About three-quarters of all burls go to Europe. There, in the veneer Tnills of France, Italy, England, Germany, revolving lathes like apple peelers cut them up into great strips about 1/50 of an inch thick. The grain pattern of burl veneer is an incredibly complicated tangle of knots and loops and swirls, often beautiful, always very elaborate. A good proportion of the U. S. burl veneer is then shipped back to the furniture factories of the U. S., where it is carefully glued on decorative pieces like radio cabinets...
...fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored proofreading room was paneled in veneer made from piles of the old Waterloo bridge...
...present prosperity is, I fear, but a veneer that masks the grave dangers that will be obvious to anyone who explores beneath the surface. . . . Hovering clouds of war, mounting debt, financial fears and continued deficits in these days of comparative prosperity reveal themselves as sinister symptoms in a diagnosis of our national health. . . . But the American people are not dumb. Their pride in the industrial development of our nation is deep seated, and when they are sure that the unsocial in our midst are eliminated, they will turn to Management's help ... to get the ship back...
...system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half-baked way of giving another course. Much more benefit can be derived from a tutorial system making an intensive study of problems springing from courses, than from a system which spreads a pitifully thin veneer of knowledge over the whole History fabric...