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...million lbs. of ethylene; 50 million Ibs. of ethyl chloride, for tetraethyl lead in high-octane aviation gasoline; 140,000 tons of sulphuric acid. In addition, Tuscola will soon have a $7,000,000 ammonia plant and a $14.5 million plant for producing polyethylene, the tough, flexible plastic that goes into squeeze bottles, poker chips, etc. (TIME...
...paradoxical knack for the practical has long made him wish he had tried the plastic arts. "Friends think I might have made a pretty good sculptor," he says...
...teams of investigators working independently have isolated the virus, looked at it long and hard under the electron microscope, photographed it and measured it. It turns out to be a spherical particle almost exactly a millionth of an inch in diameter. Magnified tens of thousands of times against a plastic screen, the virus particles look like tennis balls on an asphalt court...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...
Read explained that, while the naturalistic art of paleolithic man embodied vitality in art, the geometrical is "another plastic language" and "the consciousness of harmony...