Word: handicraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further proof that the theft was by no means an undergraduate prank lay in the discovery that the picture wires were neatly cut at the locker doors which held them to the wall. Such handicraft requires tools, investigators said...
...directors plan to install nine other handicraft shops besides their present carpentry shop. When their charges have attained the ability and maturity to fend for themselves, the directors will help them through the red tape needed to get working papers and a job. Both churches have ambitious plans for Adelheide. By May the Protestants expect to open a hospital that will accommodate 90 paralyzed children; the Catholics are planning to turn the Luftwaffe airport behind the village into a truck farm. The total population will eventually be 2,800, divided equally between the churches...
...Bowery. This week Landhaven's students wound up a month-long stay in New York. They had camped out in the gymnasium of a settlement house on Manhattan's lower East Side, and earned their keep by replastering the walls, painting, repairing chairs, and building a handicraft shop in the settlement house. They had toured the museums, the Bowery and Chinatown. They had also seen, among other plays, The Respectful Prostitute and A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Handicraft. In Hebron, Neb., Bandit Gene ("Three Gun") Howell carved his way out of the county jail with razor blades...
...Robbins Co. got into the premium business through the manufacture of ornaments for reservation Indians, who sold them to tourists as examples of native handicraft. While Leavens was Robbins' district sales manager in Chicago, he got an order to make similar trinkets for the Wrigley Co. A radio character named "Chief Wolfpaw, the Lone Wolf," sent them out for gum wrappers. Wrigley's was so snowed under with wrappers that it has never offered premiums since. But Robbins went on to become the biggest maker of box-top trinkets. From these and its other products (jewelry, name plates...