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Summoning reporters, Plastic Surgeon I. Daniel Shorell (TIME, Aug. 12) announced in Manhattan: "The British press has made urgent inquiry from me within the last 24 hours as to whether I performed a face-lifting operation on the Duchess of Windsor. ... I wish categorically to deny that I performed such an operation in Miami. Furthermore, may I suggest that you of the press accept official announcements of the Duke and Duchess. I was absent from the city to operate on another prominent person-not the Duchess. Furthermore, I shall soon go to the Bahamas on a pleasure trip...
Unlike most commercial plastics, the Boyer sheets for automobiles look like polished steel. Test panels are 70% cellulose fibre, 30% resin binder, pressed into cloth. Alone the cloth has little strength. But several sheets heat-molded in a 1,000-ton press produce a material superior to steel in everything but tensile strength. It is 50% lighter, 50% cheaper, ten times stronger. Bent like a jackknife in a huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color...
...make his super-plastic. Ford is going to the soil. One million plastic automobiles (average annual Ford production) would consume 50,000 tons of synthetic chemicals, 170,000 tons of agricultural products. Possible makeup: 100,000 bales of cotton (U. S. annual output 12,000,000 bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol...
Once formed, Ford's plastic has not the tensile strength of steel, hence will not be used for frame, chassis or motor blocks. But sheets account for half the steel that goes into modern automobiles. If Ford's plastic bodies become universal, total U. S. use of steel may be cut 10%. Worried, steelmen sent a long-nosed research committee to Dearborn last month, have not peeped since...
Commercially, the silk-screen process has long been used in decorating textiles, wallpaper, bottle labels, 5-&10?-store drinking glasses. Anthony Velonis, who was trained at New York University, began working with silk screen on a WPA art project. He uses a stencil cut out of a plastic, or built up with glue, on fine bolting silk, through which paint is squeegeed and imprinted on paper. For each color a separate stencil is used. An average print takes from four to ten stencils...