Word: woodworking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paepcke is not overly concerned about figures. He believes that Americans are too extreme both at work and at play. At Aspen he would like to create a symbol of balance. To do so he plans to promote industries in Aspen that will make woodwork out of native aspen, jewelry out of native silver, clothes out of mountain sheep's wool, cheese from the milk of local cattle. It will be no accident, however, if Paepcke, whose Container Corp. does some $75,000,000 worth of business a year, also turns Aspen into a tidy profit...
...grain bins and warehouses: Spray walls and woodwork with 5% DDT in kerosene. Don't get it on the grain; treat bins when empty...
...quit school, became a soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida escaped a shot of lead as he dined in Rome. A bullet fired in an unexplained shooting, described simply as having "nothing to do with Pepper's presence," zinged through a window and lodged in the woodwork...
...very dark and the air was choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...