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The article offers news briefs related to production in the U.S including brittleness of ceramics, establishment of lignite research laboratory at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and a paper cup stockpile planned by Paper Cup & Container Institute.

The article discusses various issues related to arts in the U.S. as of May 1952. It mentions the cover of the "American Artist" magazine for the month of May, which features the unglazed ceramic Troubadors. According to the author, one of the marked trends in the arts sector is the preliminary flash thinking on canvas resulting in freshness without finish. The development of the know-nothing movement in the industry is also discussed, which is marked by the failure by some artists to do some heavy thinking.

Describes the ceramic ocean design of the new children's wing of the Greenville Memorial Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina. Description of the space; Use of paper templates in the ceramic designs; Number of underglaze coatings applied for lighter colors of the crafts: Sizes of slabs used for the larger pieces of ceramic craft.

The article reports on the development of several designs of vitrified ceramics, which are previously developed to create undetectable nonmetallic land mines for the Army, for the postwar civilian market in the U.S.

The article offers information on the pilot plant of the General Electric Co. (GE) in the U.S. It reports that the building is for the company's metallurgic and ceramic research where metals and ceramics will be fabricated. It also discusses the GE Metallurgy and Ceramics department's equipments. GE Metallurgy and Ceramics Department's collaboration with the Westinghouse Electric Corp. is also mentioned.

The article focuses on the modernization of the U.S. ceramics industry. According to the author, research and development in ceramics are connected with industries such as jet aircraft and guided missiles, atomic energy, and the processing of chemicals. Ceramics research is looking at the nature of brittleness, the exact forms of the internal stresses in ceramics, and how new materials will perform under stress at high temperatures.

Features graphic designer Jill Seale's Whimsy Collection of hand-lettered designs. Subjects of her designs; Stem Styles collection for CounterArt; Pencil Pads for Wellspring; Ceramic “Wine Glasses” plates for Boston Warehouse.

Presents news briefs related to interior design in the U.S. as of February 2003. Expansion of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida; Launch of a Japanese ceramics and pottery collection; Information on the NeoCon West trade show in Los Angeles, California.

Provides information about two events of interest to students and collectors of antiques. Announcement of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library's annual Winter Institute on January 19 and February 7, 1997 in Delaware; Awarding of a $3000 grant for the winning paper on the history of ceramics, sponsored by the American Ceramic Circle.

The article focuses on the expertise of U.S. artist Sascha Brastoff in ceramics art. It says that the artist is popular for his magnificent works with dinnerware, plaques, vases as well as plates which is unusually in great demand. The author states that Brastoff also sketches his preliminary designs in Conte crayon or watercolor on newsprint.

The article provides information about ceramic turbine engines. To the Japanese, ceramic turbine engines make sense because they could weigh hundreds of pounds and the cast-steel internal combustion engines would not require water or air cooling systems. Meanwhile, engineers in the U.S. have been working for at least 20 years but they have not produce so much as a single commercial automobile part.

An ubiquitous product is made in Rockland County in New York at Advanced Research Technology Inc. and it is affectionately named glop by the chairman of the company Herbert Schwartz. The glop is an application, in liquid,jelly-like or powder form, that is coated onto products to enable them to withstand extreme temperatures, up to 4400 degrees F and more. That's particularly important to space and melting technologies. More scientifically, it's known as an industrial ceramic-based high temperature material. Sometimes these applications are top secret for government uses.