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...encouragement, an elderly reader in Fond du Lac County last week told him she was putting him on her prayer list, and the Congregational minister read the editorial to his Sunday-school class. Two ladies from the W.C.T.U. welcomed him over to their side...
Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...
Natural shellac is produced in much the same way as beeswax. It is a resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000, referring to the thousands of insects in a colony). Indian natives scrape the lac off the twigs, heat it in cloth bags, strain off the melted shellac. The final product is a flaky substance that dissolves readily in alcohol and, when spread on a surface, dries quickly to a hard...
...uses, Zinlac is used by the Army, Navy and Merchant Marine as coating for a great variety of equipment, from guns to life rafts. Its manufacturer, the old Manhattan shellac firm of William Zinsser & Co., is turning out more Zinlac than its total prewar sales of shellac. Zin lac, however, will not help in making phonograph records, normally one of the chief U.S. users of shellac. On records, this corn product does not work...
...Grand Lac de l'Epaule. They ate the proudest concoctions of three chefs, a head baker and a head pastry cook...