Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...
...biggest surprise in the study was the apparent plentifulness of Japanese strategic metal supplies. The Japanese are wasteful and often clumsy in workmanship (e.g., apparently ignorant of the principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...
Shuttling Operators. One big hitch is that the cheap cotton goods will probably not be on the market till next spring or summer. Whether their quality will measure up to OPA hopes, no one can say. For although specific standards of material and workmanship were set for the first 30,000,000 children's garments which will be made under the new plan, enforcement is probably tougher in the textile industry than in any other field.* A complex business, its operators can weave in & out of regulations as deftly as a shuttle on a loom...
Because piano tuning is a craft requiring great patience, tuners are apt to be dignified men who take great pride in their workmanship. Most of them also pride themselves on a calm, philosophical attitude toward life. A tuner must be able to move smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with...
...Souvenir collections (Jap helmet, canteen, gas mask, paper money) are still selling strong in New Britain, asking prices are in fresh eggs, steaks, oranges, canned goods. ¶Wristlets and watch bands made from scrap plane duraluminum, stamped "Guadalcanal," "Tarawa," etc., bring $8 to $15, depending on workmanship. Polished cat's-eye shells, strung as necklaces, range from...