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Word: shellacing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...radium poisoning." Such poisoning, say the doctors, is unlikely. "There is some danger, however, of flakes of the radium paint on the control handles sticking to the hands and later being transferred to the mouth." Preventive: all control handles should have their radium paint covered with a coat of shellac or varnish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Flier's Life | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Sept. 5, when England and France were in, these speculative prices were up 14% over August's average, by Sept. 22 they were up 27%-to a World War II high. The sharpest rise occurred understandably in import necessities: wool tops up 50% in two weeks, shellac up 74% in three. The more representative all-commodity index, reflecting industrial as well as raw commodity prices, reached a peak at 79.5, up only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War & Prices | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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