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Butler who obviously follows the commendable pattern of Louis Armstrong's 1930-1931 Okeh recordings, draws more applause with his vocal and instrumental work during the floor show than any of the regular acts. (Oh, yes--the Hofbrau is a converted theatre and the floor show starts around...
...methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every 100 sq. yd.) on to it. (The feathered mesh is sprayed with a neutral color, ready for pattern painting...
...pattern calls for buildings, trees or a complete scene, this is painted from blueprints on laid-out rolls of mesh. Rolled up, marked for reassembling, the mesh is shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...
Billy figured that he could mass-produce aircraft parts out of his odd-sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
Reading down one letter of each line (beginning with F and moving one letter in with each line down) makes up Frances S. Osgood. A roughly similar pattern at the end of the lines makes up Rufus W. Griswold. Readers may find other meanings in the poem. Griswold was in deeper waters than he knew. By the time he wrote the introduction to Female Poets, he had tasted opium and suffered an epileptic...