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Items for which demand was last week reported high: Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of these bored cleanly through a slate-tiled roof, through furniture and two floorings and burrowed ten feet into the ground without exploding.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

His was the only voice raised in protest against those who pillaged windows and door posts, or flitted at moonlight with joists and floorings.

From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John

Carroll got no farther than the scuttle, for the saloon floorings on the depressed side were already awash and he could hear an ominous splashing and gurgling.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold

The partitions and floorings are now thrown down, and torn up, and the apartments occupied for six years by the hero before whom kings, emperors, and popes had quailed, are now tenanted by cart-horses!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various