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...keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass is making strides comparable to those of aluminum in the past decade, but it is challenged by plastics. The venerable U.S. glass industry, according to George Pope MacNichol Jr., vice president of Libbey-Owens-Ford, is at a historic crossroads: it can either partially abdicate before the plastics industry, try to develop glass products superior to plastics, or jump into the manufacture of plastics itself. Libbey-Owens-Ford...
...watched his Hawaiian volunteer workers, Colonel Unmacht had his big idea. He told the women to fold back the corners of the sacks and stitch them up to resemble rabbit ears. Then he asked Hawaiian hospitals for old X-ray negatives washed clean with acid. The negatives made transparent plastic windows for the front of Colonel Unmacht's bunny masks. At latest reports Hawaiian moppets are so eager to play rabbit in the new masks that parents are being asked to keep all bunny masks laid safely away for a real emergency...
...extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh and bone, 2) the pin-bars, which are plastic so they will not set up the tissue-irritating galvanic currents induced when different metals touch each other...
...Toothpicks, chopsticks, wooden and plastic pins to combat the hairpin shortage...
...galloped loose, jumped a fence into a fair ground. In Portland, Ore., a brainy greyhound at a dog track figured things out, took a short cut across the center, caught the mechanical bunny coming head on, won retirement. In Brantford, Ont, the local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find a sea gull perched there, waiting. In Philadelphia, a homing pigeon turned...