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...really transparent plastic window pane, which will withstand the explosion of a 150-lb. bomb eight feet away, has been developed by Monsanto to end the danger of flying glass during air raids. The pane is made of 16-mesh wire screen sandwiched between two sheets of cellulose acetate plastic. It can be easily mounted in standard window frames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plastics in War | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Louis factory last week announced a new process for making certain airplane parts of paper. In the McDonnell Aircraft Corp., layers of paper are bound together with plastic, formed into wing tips, rudders, etc. Company officials boasted that an experimentally produced wing tip was stronger and lighter than one made of aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Paper Planes | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...flaxseed will overtake cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Changing American Farm | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...first closed meeting will be on Tuesday, July 14; its program includes several films on plastic surgery. Nominations from members of the Society for new members should be submitted to the Executive Council before or at this meeting tomorrow and they will be elected July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Med Society To Hear Ferry Tomorrow | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Heinz Co. (57 Varieties) is going into "large-scale" production of plastic-plywood airplane and glider parts. To this startling announcement the staid, publicity-shy, 73-year-old food processor flatly refused to add a single word. One leaked-out fact: the work will be done on pressure machines formerly used for canning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: 57 Varieties Go To War | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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