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...most large scientific conventions, the principal concern was better jobs, but the chemists listened to papers touching on nearly every chemical compound that can be put into a test tube. They heard about hydrazine and dithiooximide and triacetyl-aldehyde-L-erythrose. The learned speakers told how to keep plastic shower curtains from smelling bad and how to keep cattle from getting arthritis...
...Stronger than steel, withstood shell fragments as successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
...plastics products which also won prizes in the competition, ranged from hardware (garden hose) and building materials (wall tiles, translucent plastic-block walls, vinyl floors, fluorescent light fixtures) to gadgets (harmonicas, toy blocks, perfume atomizers) and artificial hands, complete with hair...
This fall Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. joins the animal fanciers with an owl whose, chest lights up with a big "6" (6% saving for cash). To dramatize various features of their service, New York's Chevrolet dealers plan to hire six dwarfs. Fitted with plastic masks and dressed as garage repairmen, the dwarfs will be addressed as Howdy, Quickie, Tidy, Thrifty, Brainy and Brawny...
Belittling the plastic experiments of his fellow Mexican muralists, Orozco once remarked that he could paint with anything, even mud. But Orozco had been mighty particular about the materials for this picture, brazenly borrowing his method from the men he had once criticized. Mixed with ethyl silicate (a chemical binder used in making industrial plaster molds), his paints were more durable than car enamel. Rain splashed down on the mural every day last week, but failed to wash anything away...