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Work and Prayer. Next day the monks started to convert the barn into the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost. For the traditional Trappist common dormitory they constructed cells of wallboard (4½ by 7 feet), threw their hard straw mattresses on wooden planks. They sleep in their monastic habits (white and black for priests, brown for lay brothers), taking off only their shoes. They go to bed at 7 p.m. An alarm clock wakes them at 2 a.m., when the austere Trappist day begins with two hours of prayers. At 4 Holy Mass is offered...
...Under wartime restrictions the panels are made of celotex and wallboard. But they could be made of any material. Having no weight-carrying walls, the Wiener-Sert system uses only about 50% of the structural lumber and 80% of the metal permitted...
...hand work of reducing 16-inch squares of gauze to four-inch sponges-at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
...together a Pacific hut-cozy, semi-permanent quarters for 16 to 18 men-in only eight hours. Pacific Huts' founders took about that much time to slap their company together last year. Its president, an ex-Buick salesman, Frank Hobbs, was then head of the Colotyle Corp. (a wallboard manufacturer now making bathroom and shower assemblies for Henry Kaiser); its vice president, George K. Comstock, owned a Seattle neon-sign business...
...paint, gouache* (a combination of opaque colors ground in water and a preparation of gum arabic) is mixed with water in painting, is fast-drying, cheap and simple to use. Gouache painters need neither easels, oil, turpentine nor expensive canvas, can paint conveniently on anything from paper to wallboard. Unlike watercolor, where the texture of the paper shows through the paint, the pigment in gouache is opaque, sticks out from the surface of the paper as oil paint stands out on canvas...