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...last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean oil Mr. McCarroll's assistants make lacquer for Ford motor cars. They claim that soy bean lacquer is better than du Font's Duco. From meal which remains after oil is extracted from soy beans, Ford chemists make plastic parts for car bodies. Chemists are now working on bodies made of laminated sheet steel and soy bean plastic. All the equipment needed to process soy beans at a profit fits into an ordinary barn. At the Century of Progress last year the Ford Co. exhibited a barn so outfitted...
...amateur plastic surgeon who altered the fingertips and features of the late John Dillinger is in prison for compounding that blackguard's felonies. But the scare over what plastic surgery can do to mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City...
Said Dr. Sheehan: "When a competent plastic surgeon performs this sort of an operation no scar remains which a photograph will reveal. Only a sharp eye can detect the line of the incision in vivo...
...same, said he, is true for almost any plastic operation-removal of moles, repair of harelips, remodeling of noses, reconstruction of jaws, replacement of fingernails, destruction of scars, counterfeiting of fingertips. For fingertips he uses skin from the abdomen...
...other words," said he, "a competent plastic surgeon, if given time, can alter every mark by which human beings are ordinarily identified. The advantage which the police still have in dealing with criminals is that the criminal is always in a hurry. And this work, to be well done, takes time...