Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hauptmann in Wax Sirs: Adding to TIME'S pithy paragraph pertaining to posthumous phonographic poesies [TIME, Sept. 30] may I suggest for a bellylaugh, Jack Kapp's Decca platter, End of Public Enemy No. 1, reverse side being Bruno Hauptmann's Fate, wherein the singer refers to the Teuton in the past tense. He fails to reveal however, whether Mr. H. becomes a celestial or takes one of Hermes' personally conducted tours. Me, think Buck Nation should have consulted Bruno's wishes in the matter...
...week Herbert F. Johnson Jr., president of S. C. Johnson & Son, posed in front of his two-motored Sikorsky Amphibian at Milwaukee Airport, informed newshawks that he was leading a 22,000 mile expedition into the wilds of Brazil. He was disturbed, he said, by a shortage of carnauba wax. With him were a Johnson research chemist, a Johnson purchasing agent, two pilots, field laboratory equipment, specimen cases, cinema cameras, guns, fishing rods. Heading for Para, Brazil, was Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination...
...carnauba palm is "the tree of life" to native Brazilians, who use its wood for cattle pens, its leaves to thatch huts, its fibre for baskets and fishing nets. Industrially, carnauba wax is used mainly in floor, shoe and auto polishes, has no substitute.* After the rainy season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm...
Brazil is the only source of carnauba wax. Last year exports totaled 13,500,000 Ib., more than half of which went to the U. S. Principal uses are: floor and furniture polish-Johnson & Son, A. S. Boyle Co.; shoe polish-Gold Dust (Shinola, 2-in-1, Bixbee), Whittemore, Griffin; auto polish-Simoniz, Du Pont...
...strange half-Oriental, half-African flavor of the book is concentrated in the scene that gives it its title. A criminal in Addiet, remote mountain city, was sentenced to "death by fire, in muslin," for having shot at the native prince. Rolls of muslin were dipped in hot wax and honey, wrapped in layers around the prisoner, almost entirely covering him except for his eyes and nose. Stiff-legged, he was stood up in the centre of a small fire. "It was early morning; cows lowed. The witnesses smelled the perfume of honey given out by the living candle...