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...model for the hand posed every Sunday for a year. "She had a wonderful leg," quips Ivan of that which does not appear in the picture at all. The model for the funeral wreath had to be renewed about five times in the course of the work because the wax flowers drooped every couple of years...
Franklin Roosevelt already had the power to enforce most of this design. Rationing was about to begin on sugar and East Coast gasoline. This week Leon Henderson clamped down the over-all price ceiling: starting May 11 for wholesalers, May 18 for retailers, prices of shoes and sealing wax are frozen at their levels of last March. Rents in almost all cities also come under the ceiling; so do the prices charged by laundries, tailors, auto-repair shops. All merchants will be licensed; retailers must display the ceiling prices in full view. This was regimentation -the first...
...colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns and trace on them the remaining lines of Nicolas' drawing. Then the various colored pieces are reassembled and glued with liquid wax to a large, trans parent plate-glass pane...
...classical music, a novelty number here, a Hollywood star there. No one draws pay; no one rehearses. The procedure is to conscript one of the big weekly commercials immediately after it goes off the air, build a new show with added acts and performers, transcribe it, and send the wax discs to the short-wave stations for the Sunday broadcast...
...gaskets, etc. To up war production, apiarists will have to let their bees build more combs (instead of having them refill combs from which the honey has been centrifugally extracted). This will be costly: bees must eat 12 to 15 lb. of their honey to secrete one pound of wax...