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This workman of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. is putting the finishing touches on a plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas...
...folding, prefabricated house, so light (three tons) and compact that it can be moved from place to place on a truck trailer. Its chief feature is a new insulating material called Plastic Foam, which looks like dry ice, weighs only a tenth as much as rock wool or cork board, is fireproof, waterproof, soundproof. The house, tele scoped to 8 ft. wide on the road, pulls out to 15 ft. to provide two bedrooms, has a small living room and kitchen, costs $1,800 complete with furniture...
...plastic glue, called Cycleweld, which may replace riveting and spot welding on light metals, notably aluminum. Developed by Goodyear and Chrysler, it bonds metal, wood or plastic sheets together, is stronger and cheaper than riveting or welding...
Meanwhile one U.S. record manufacturer happily continued making records as though Boss Petrillo and his ban did not exist. Eli Oberstein, proprietor of Classic Records Co., has no truck with vocal ersatz. Many of his records are made in Mexico and shipped to him in plastic pressings via air mail. Even well-known musicians, anxious to pick up some change, have brought him records they have made themselves...
Divorced. By Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge Lange, 24, onetime tele phone girl who inherited $2,500,000 from the late motor-heir Daniel George Dodge; U.S. Army Captain William Anding Lange, 33, peacetime plastic surgeon; in Detroit. Mrs. Lange said that her husband made her do all her own housework...