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Canvas, always imported for U.S. artists from Ireland and Belgium, is the biggest problem. With Belgian linen cut off, prices of first-class material are up nearly 300%, and most artists are making shift with domestic cotton substitutes. (The U.S. does not grow the right kind of flax for high-grade linen canvas.) Some artists are experimenting with beaverboard, shirt cardboard, many building-board substitutes (like Masonite...
Repeats Last Year's Shift...
...clerk's voice boomed: "Allen of Illinois!" "No!" "Allen of Louisiana!" ";Yes."The count seesawed, nip & tuck. Not until the "Ws" were reached could Rayburn be sure. He announced the vote at 4:25, in the hushed House: "212 ayes to 194 nays." The bill was passed. A shift of ten votes would have killed it. Of 159 Republicans, 137 had voted against repeal. But if 22 Republicans had voted against repeal instead of for it, the bill would have been beaten. In the two days of debate the Republican leader, Joe Martin of Massachusetts, had said only five...
Summers, although he played with the seconds yesterday, is now slated to replace Bill Wilson at left half. A shift of that importance, however, can never be unalterably definite before the whistle blows...
...request hurt even worse: Six-or seven-day operations mean sharply upped overtime costs. One possible solution: add men to the second shift; perhaps start a third shift...