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...square miles of factories spewing out 2,000,000 tons of chemical products a year. Billingham made everything from fertilizers to sulphuric acids, annually turned out 100,000 tons of synthetic high-octane gas from coal and creosote oil. I.C.I.'s alkali division reached bulk production of the plastic polyethylene the day the Nazis marched into Poland. In the metals division, new plants made fuel tanks for planes, periscope tubes for submarines, 60 different types of ammunition. Other divisions boosted production, and I.C.I.'s researchers added their bit with such things as Gamma Benzene Hexachloride, a highly effective...
...elapsed-time clock), for family drivers such familiar extra equipment as radio and heater, power brakes, power steering, and push-button window controls. A new feature: two tops for year-round driving. The power-operated canvas top for summer use folds down behind the seat; the optional lightweight detachable plastic top can be fastened on in winter to turn the Thunderbird into a hardtop...
Read opened the lecture, "The Idea as Human," with a statement of his basic thesis that human consciousness of reality is first made concrete in works of art and only later developed into ideas. "The plastic symbols of art," he said, make all our abstract cogitations basically possible...
Silvered Homes. All surface structures, of course, would have to be protected from the terrible heat and cold of the lunar day & night. They should be covered with some reflecting metal. Exterior domes might be of steel, plated with silver, or better yet, of glass cloth, sealed with plastic inside and sprayed with silver outside. Even if small, they would have to be anchored strongly, and the expansion caused by heat and cold would probably rock their anchor bolts loose...
PACKARD entered the experimental plastic sports-car parade with the three-passenger "Panther," powered by a 212-h.p. straight-eight engine...