Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vases continuing with few gaps through 5,000 years, from the Stone Age down to late Byzantine times; much Greek and Roman sculpture, including several "unique masterpieces." One of these was a twelve-inch ivory statue of Apollo, broken into 200 pieces, so that putting it together was a jigsaw-puzzle...
...recent years she has been a proper little matron, known to Austrians as Die Gnäddige Frau, "the Gracious Lady." She has spent most of her time doing complicated 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, chatting with priests, walking out (since she got the habit of early rising) before sunup to feed the neighbors' dogs...
...latest available) put total U. S. plywood production at $45,500,000. The figure for 1939 will probably be around $80,000,000. The stuff is being used for luggage, piano cases, radio cabinets, speedboats, concrete forms, truck bodies, prefabricated houses, cinema studio sets, boxcars, beer barrels, showcases, jigsaw puzzles, Ping-pong tables. Eugene Vidal, onetime head of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce, is now president of a small company which has developed a low-cost plywood airplane, and he plans soon to lease manufacturing rights. FORTUNE estimates the total number of plywood uses, decorative and structural...