Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sabotage began almost immediately. Coin box slots were stuffed with chewing gum or wax. Cables were cut or damaged with rifles, shotguns, dynamite and axes; a row of 22 telephone poles was neatly cut down with a power saw. Fortnight ago in St. Petersburg, a dynamite charge under a bridge ripped apart an 1800-wire cable, and last week 9,000 families in Lakeland lost phone service when seven cables were cut. Though supervisory people man telephone equipment and make repairs, sabotage often cuts off service to one area before it can be restored in another. Among the cut lines...
...like this in Italy," said General Mark Clark, "I could have cleaned up that theater of action in two weeks." Trout & Candles. As the Linen party lasted into the night, a final flurry of preparations was going on in New York. Ready for the tables were 680 handmade, solid-wax candles with a five-hour burning capacity. In the Waldorf kitchens, the staff was preparing 1,800 small brook trout raised specifically in a Long Island hatchery for the appetizer: Truite de Rivière en Gelée à la Muguette. In the ballroom, a team of theater directors...
Some of the greatest individuals the world has known dedicated their works ad majorem Dei gloriam. But it was really for the greater glory of man that they recreated the heavens and the earth in their paintings, molded the fiercest and the softest forms as if marble had become wax, and folded the world into their ledgers. For, as Will Durant said of the Renaissance, "first of all it took money, smelly bourgeois money...
...spurred by the New Deal's emphasis on conservation, looked for ways to use waste. Over the years, it found a process to bleach fir pulp white to make it suitable for better-grade papermaking, developed paperboard that will take color printing and a polyethylene coating to replace wax on milk cartons. Aside from its supertrees, Weyerhaeuser's most intensive research is aimed at finding more uses for bark, which represents 15% of each tree. It has developed a hydraulic debarker that bombards mill logs with water and leaves them peeled like bananas. Recovered bark chips, once burned...
...sold in the open, now come wrapped by the manufacturer. Such unlikely products as peanut butter, meat tenderizer, cocktail mixes and blue cheese spread are now dispensed from aerosol cans, and the industry is working on squeeze tubes that will give forth coffee, fish bait and ski wax. "Shrink films" of plastic that mold themselves to a product's shape now protect everything from layettes to turkeys, and other films are being developed that can wrap around liquids and eliminate the need for bottles...