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...chiefly by retired couples who tour Cape Cod in late September. The artist is a burly fellow (Ezra Reuben Baker), recognizably aesthetic in paint-smeared dungarees, scurrilous red sweater and combat boots. He trundles a cart filled with paint buckets along a dock, then throws an enormous sheet of wallboard down on a mud flat ten feet below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...that heavier production would force prices down. But Lobo argues that the industry should find new uses for sugar, thus attract new industry into Cuba's one-commodity economy. Thanks largely to his campaign, several plants are now being built in Cuba to produce such sugar byproducts as wallboard, newsprint and plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Sugar King | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...device is a wallboard box, about one cubic foot in size, which contains a smaller box made of galvanized iron. Between the two boxes are alternating layers of rock wool and steel wool. A tube from the inside draws off the accumulated orgone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Construct New Device To Accumulate 'Orgone' Energy | 5/7/1957 | See Source »

...girls eat better. he cannot entirely appreciate the Manhattan dames who "have eleven-inch waists, barndoor mouths, and stand around on the sidewalks with their feet at right angles to one another." But he can also be pretty biting about life back home and "the plumbing, dry-battery, wallboard. disk-harrow and axle-grease aristocracy." There speaks a man-Dick Bissell as much as Jack Jordan-caught in the middle between houseboats and station wagons, between the home that made him and a home he hasn't yet made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Different Pajama Game | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Liquid Tile. A liquid plastic that dries into a smooth, hard, waterproof, tile-like surface was put on sale by Ev-R Shield Products, Inc. of Joppa, Md. "Glascote," painted by brush, swab or roller onto porous materials like plaster, plaster wallboard, seasoned wood, concrete or pressed wood, develops a poreless finish that, says the manufacturer, is invulnerable to all known solvents. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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