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Pacific Seas. Clinton's second cafeteria is the Pacific Seas. He and his wife selected tropical materials for it in Hawaii last fall. Its giant bamboo came from Formosa. Its façade has a 15-foot waterfall; inside is a goldfish-filled brook. Fantastic lights combine plastic and neon flowers. Many Californians think it's grand...
...supply: 1) A group of furniture manufacturers of Jamestown, N.Y. (the "Little Grand Rapids") formed American Aviation Corp. Aided by aviation technicians, the furniture men aim to provide plywood planes and gliders on a mass-production basis for the Navy. 2) In New York City, a group of plastics manufacturers formed the Plastic War Production Association, will pool machinery and knowledge. 3) WPB this week issued an order providing for complete allocation of Douglas fir among high priority holders...
During World War I an ingenious German surgeon, Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, developed a plastic operation to link the muscles of an amputated stump to an artificial arm so efficiently that the live muscles could operate the fingers of an artificial hand. In a new book two German refugee surgeons describe the classic Sauerbruch technique (Cineplastic Operations on Stumps of the Upper Extremity; Grune & Stratton...
...Printing plates made of a light strong plastic, to replace ten times their weight in metallic stereotypes and electrotypes, are announced by Theodore Moss, Inc. The master plate is still made of metal but any number of duplicate plates can be made by molding under pressure. The inked impression is sharp and accurate even for fine half-tones, but for direct printing the plastic plates do not have the endurance of metal plates...
...plastic to replace rubber in raincoats, golf balls, baby pants, footwear, gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose...