Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elusive character, something deeper even than "blood and race," the Nazi leader of Franconia, famed Julius Streicher, Boss of Nürnberg and pal of Adolph Hitler, came out with a ringing demand: "The new laws for the protection of German racial purity must be extended to dolls and wax figures. It is an insult to German womanhood that Jewish children should play with dolls having German faces. The Jews must be forced to manufacture dolls with definitely...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
Having no organized market, wax is handled by a group of Manhattan importers. Because prolonged rains reduce the carnauba's need for hoarded moisture, the wax crop varies widely from year to year. This year the rains came early, stayed late. Result is a delayed crop, a rise in price per Ib.-now 38?, almost four times that of the 1932 bottom, but far short of an 80? peak price in 1918. Few U. S. waxmen agree with Johnson's President Johnson that there is a serious shortage...
Founded half a century ago in Racine, Wis. by Samuel Curtis Johnson, who developed wax as a sideline for his hardwood floor business, S. C. Johnson & Son now accounts for more than one-half the U. S. wax business. Prosperous, family-owned, famed for its model employe benefit plans, the company is now headed by the founder's grandson, Herbert Jr., no salesman but a trained chemist who likes technical problems, supervision of new products. Every year he flies in his own plane to Canadian wilds for three months of hunting & fishing...
...Before carnauba wax was first used commercially about 50 years ago beeswax was used for polishes. Today most beeswax goes into Catholic altar candles, which must be at least 51% beeswax to meet an old Church law based on the supposed virginity of bees. No such rule governs votive candles, sold in great numbers to the faithful. These may be made of ordinary stearic acid and paraffin...