Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waxworks of Tomorrow. In Racine Wis., S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (Johnson's Wax) began building a radically new research building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...
...Never Before Dreamed Of" and "Sentimental Guy" both written during his stay here as a V-12 man and a Funster will soon issue forth on Republic wax and Occille Music's sheets...
...exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
...beautiful stone house on a beautiful stretch of shore: it looks like a fine place to live in, but the principals who live there are not plausible enough to deserve the privilege. Once in a while Greer Garson demonstrates that a good actress is jailed inside all the suffocating wax that the studio has molded around her. Newcomer Richard Hart makes a cagey, personable deceiver. Robert Mitchum tries a Gallic gesture now & then but most of the time he just looks sleepy. No audience will blame him much for that...
...Issues Wax...