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Only one big novelty in record manufacturing was contemplated for postwar production: a new disc made from vinylite or other plastic, which will be 1) lighter in weight, 2) superior in surface qualities, 3) practically unbreakable...
...Plastic dishes in any color which will not break, crack, discolor or absorb...
...doctor published a book undertaking to show that it is now possible for most people to live to be at least 100. Its title: You Are Younger Than You Think (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $2.75). The author is Dr. Martin Gumpert of Manhattan, refugee from Nazi Germany, sometime German soldier, plastic surgeon, dermatologist, biographer, poet and the model for the character Mai-Sachme in Thomas Mann's Joseph the Provider (TIME, July...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...
...process was developed by a St. Paul inventor named Jose Baraquiel Calva, onetime Mexican government engineer. By treating fibers with several chemicals, including cresol, alcohol, benzol and hydrochloric acid, he converts them into a resinous plastic. The fibers can then be stiffened or softened, straightened or curled, made mothproof, shrinkproof, even waterproof...