Word: plasticities
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...Navy's device, like that of Caltech's Physicist Alexander Goetz (TIME, June 7), uses chemicals to remove salts from the water. Equipment consists of a packet of chemicals the size of a deck of cards and three plastic bags resembling hot-water bottles. Sea water is mixed with one of the chemicals in the first bag, which converts the salts in the water into other compounds. These are then precipitated by another chemical and filtered out in the second and third bags. The final product: clear, fresh, slightly sulfuric water...
Priorities on clay, the usual ocarina material, are no difficulty. "Sweet potatoes" shaped out of plastic have the added advantage of being practically unbreakable. Since Pearl Harbor, sales of plastic ocarinas have skyrocketed. Biggest manufacturer, the Fred. Gretsch Mfg. Co. of Chicago and Brooklyn, now sells some 250,000 to 300,000 a year...
Greatest of these is unquestionably Ocarinist Bernie Ladd, who manufactures his own carefully tuned instruments and plays solos with Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Like most serious musicians, Ocarinist Ladd is a stanch traditionalist and prefers mud to plastic. He regards the U.S. Army's new unbreakable ocarinas as newfangled gadgets unworthy of a master's breath...
...Synthetic shoe leather, produced on carpet looms by Bigelow-Sanford, is made of close-woven cotton impregnated with plastic. Soles of the cottonleather give more mileage than the best leather, can be cemented or sewed to uppers...
...Plastic tubing, announced by Goodyear, is ready to replace rubber tubing now prioritied to such users as breweries and creameries. As flexible as rubber, the new tubing has about the same strength and resistance to high & low temperatures, can be transparent, opaque or colored...