Just as borax producers used flimsy furniture to sell their soap, Levitz used flimsy stock to increase its furniture business.
Wood workshops are used for furniture reparations and new products.
Such a process could in future be used to build furniture, bikes, cars and even buildings, he thinks.
The Clifton cinema in Wellington closed in 1989 and was used as a furniture store until Dunelm Mill moved out last year.
Inside, the simple bergerie (shepherd's house) is whitewashed and scented by bunches of dried lavender and the beeswax used on the furniture.
It is more malleable than the traditional stiff plastic used to make lawn furniture and plastic forks.
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You're not a co-signer, you aren't using it, but that spouse used it to buy furniture or things that you enjoyed as a family.
Bamboo is also used for making paper, furniture and instruments, from flutes and drums to the pan pipes of the Andes.
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The best maple trees are highly sought-after for veneer used in making cabinets and furniture or as logs that are suitable for processing at a sawmill.
Officials in charge of three key international treaties said delegates agreed by consensus to a gradual phase out of the flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane, or HBCD, which is used in building insulation, furniture, vehicles and electronics.
Ikea used forced prison labour to make furniture headline in The Independent.
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These include companies such as DHL, the high street chain Timpson and Amaryllis, which has used prisoners to help provide recycled furniture and fittings for the Olympic Games.
Veneers a thin piece of premium wood covering a lower-quality piece of wood are often used even in very high-quality furniture.
For eight years, I occasionally used Craigslist for purchasing and selling electronics, furniture, appliances, tickets, cars, etc.
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Armed with this information, I feel much more confident about approaching future furniture purchases, both new and used.
The building has been used as a theatre, dance hall and furniture store since it opened in 1920.
The venue contains approximately 26, 000 sq ft (2, 400 sq metres) and has been used as a theatre, dance hall and furniture store since it first opened in 1920.
It can be used for garden benches, bollards, street furniture.
But while scientists have warned us about chemicals such as chlorinated Tris since the 1970s, they continue to be used in products all around us, including furniture, cribs, mattresses and high-chair cushions.
Antimony Trioxide: Used in paint pigment, plastics, adhesives, textiles, furniture, draperies, wall coverings and carpets.
Li Shichun, who runs the downtown furniture shop Vintiques Shanghai Art Deco, says there used to be a fairly steady flow of Deco pieces onto the market, driven by the demolition of old homes to make way for new construction and a general attitude among locals that Deco furniture wasn't something worth keeping.
Furniture was taken outside and from a nearby nightclub and used to blockade the A34, a main route in and out of the city, in what police said was a deliberate attempt to lure officers to the scene and attack them.
Formerly a furniture store, the space in the Bull Yard will be used to help people find work and improve skills.
Biocides are the name given for pesticides used outside the field of agriculture, such as rat poison or treating furniture with fungicides.
Before smoking caught on with women, men used to retire to their smoking rooms, which were kitted out with special furniture.
In Asia, where it has the most programs, only 30% of the cost of establishing a library involves printing and distributing books, while the rest goes toward furniture, training teachers and monitoring to make sure the books are getting used.
In the post, I pointed out some of the problems of comparing collectibles to traditional investments such as stocks, bonds or commodities, particularly when the data used to construct collectibles indices, whether they are focused on art or stamps or coins or furniture or watches, can be highly selective.
Huntsman makes chemicals used in a variety of industries such as plastics, autos, footwear, paints, construction, furniture and packaging.
Saudi Arabia now sends students on scholarships to Chinese universities, and some rich Saudis, more used to shopping for Gucci in New York or London, are heading to once-obscure Chinese cities to buy furniture.
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