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...soon as our troops started south from Lingayen we began flying plastic printing plates and photographic positives of each week's Pony Edition to Luzon in the hope that some prewar presses would be found intact there (plates in case we found letter presses still available, positives if we found presses for offset lithography still standing...
...barrage lifted; the troops started across the dark, swirling water in rubber and wooden assault boats, ducks, alligators, amphibious tanks. Some boats were smashed by enemy fire, others by plastic mines floated downstream by the Germans, and still others were wrecked by iron spikes and barbed wire set under water. But many boats got safely across...
Luscious License. In Springfield, Ill., State officials, proud of having saved tons of steel by making 1945 Illinois automobile licenses out of a soybean plastic, were chagrined when motorists began complaining that hungry dogs now chase their cars for blocks to get a bite of the tasty new plates...
Made of fiber, willow wood, leather, aluminum, steel or plastic, modern artificial limbs are light and adaptable: knee joints, for example, are adjustable for walking, sitting, even dancing. Artificial arms have a great variety of hand attachments. For public wear, there is usually a wooden hand, covered by a glove; for utility, a double hook arrangement to grasp small objects, and special fittings for eating, hammering, driving screws, etc. Before discharge, every man must be able to feed and dress himself...
...Department: a plastic artificial eye which, besides being unbreakable, has been found by the Army to be superior in many ways to the best custom-made glass eyes. Carefully made to duplicate a patient's natural eye shape and coloring, the plastic eye is lighter than glass, fits better, can be moved by the eye muscles, costs less than $5 (against $300 for a custom-made glass...