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...class struggle" painters (of whom William Gropper is best known), Kootz says: "Gropper, for instance, has never been able to invent a plastic language of his own. . . . The plain fact of the matter is that the radical pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...
Once limited to small shapes (like porous oil-filled bearings for automobile springs), plastic metals are now molded into thousands of parts, from tiny bearings (1/64th oz.) to big pieces (65 lb.). that replace castings on medium tanks. Powdered metals, molded to shape with heat and pressure, need little machining or finishing, save time as well as bronze, aluminum and other scarce metals...
Langhammer estimates that plastic methods give his 500 Amplex workers the output of 35,000 men using old methods. On V-blocks alone he expects to turn out more (in the rough) than all the other toolmakers together can produce in a year by machining them from solid steel...
...such flexibility of fighter supply, engineers devised a big (165-gallon) plastic tank, attached one to each wing of the Lightning. Weighing 1,000 Ib. when full (90 empty), the tanks are jettisoned when used. Streamlined, they take only 4% off the P-38's top speed, a lower percentage at cruising speeds...