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...whole new family of plastics is based on the element silicon, rather than the element carbon which provides the chemical skeleton for the majority. These "silicones" are the result of research by Corning Glass Works (glass might be called a silicon plastic) and engineering by Dow Chemical Co. First uses, undoubtedly military, have not been disclosed. The silicones, solid or liquid, have one extraordinary property: an ability to stand extreme temperatures characteristic of their silicon parentage...
...Thermo-Cast, developed in Columbia University laboratories, speeds aircraft production. A plastic that acts like a metal, it may be melted and cast without pressure. Thermo-Cast is tough enough, although one-fifth the weight of steel, to stand up in dies used to shape aluminum sheets. By stamping larger sections, the number of rivets needed is reduced, assembly time is speeded...
...Today's troops may awake to the blast of a bugle molded completely of plastic, brush their teeth with paste from a plastic tube, drink from a plastic canteen. In testing plastics for canteens, the Army Quartermaster Corps set higher standards than previous materials could meet. Tests include freezing the canteen while 90% full of water, dropping it ten feet onto concrete, tasting and smelling distilled water kept in the canteen 24 hours at tropic heat...
...Lucite plastic bearings in a giant citrus-juice extractor are lubricated by the juice they squeeze, are not affected by the sterilizing steam and the fruit acids, which wear down bronze...
...best written screen play, 3) best black-&-white cinematography, 4) best director, William Wyler (now an Air Forces major on duty in England), 5) best actress, Greer Garson (as Mrs. M.), 6) best supporting actress, Teresa Wright. Green-eyed, feather-haired Greer Garson clutched her gold-painted plastic Oscar and silently wept. "This is the most wonderful thing. . . . I feel just like Alice in Wonderland." Other Oscars: to Cinema's man of the year, James Cagney (in Yankee Doodle Dandy); to the best supporting actor, Lieut. Van Heflin (in Johnny Eager). Said a message from Franklin D. Roosevelt...